Definition of sorrowful Sorrowful
/sɑˈɹowfʌl/ - [sarowful] -
We found 6 definitions of sorrowful from 4 different sources.
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What does sorrowful mean?
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| sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13 | ||
| joyful full of or producing joy; "make a joyful noise"; "a joyful occasion" | ||
| joyless not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings" | ||
| unhappy experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad" | ||
| anguished, tortured, tormented experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation" | ||
| bereaved, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing, bereft sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" | ||
| bitter proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies" | ||
| brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick full of sorrow | ||
| dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping showing sorrow | ||
| elegiac expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals" | ||
| heartbreaking, heartrending, grievous causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" | ||
| lamenting, wailful, wailing vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare | ||
| lugubrious excessively mournful | ||
| plaintive, mournful expressing sorrow | ||
| sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti | ||
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Wiktionary 
- sorrowful (Adjective)
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught. - sorrowful (Adjective)
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- sorrowful (a.)
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. - sorrowful (a.)
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
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sorrowful
Filled with grief, sorrow, woe.
