English > sorrowful: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss. |
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| Examples | - "sorrowful widows"
- "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"
- "sorrowful news"
- "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
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| Narrower | anguished, tormented, tortured | Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain |
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| bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing | sorrowful through loss or deprivation |
| bitter | expressive of severe grief or regret |
| brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick | Full of sorrow |
| dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping | showing sorrow |
| elegiac | Expressing sorrow often for something past |
| grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending | Causing or marked by grief or anguish |
| lamenting, wailing, wailful | vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression |
| lugubrious | excessively mournful |
| mournful, plaintive | Expressing sorrow |
| sad | Of things that make you feel sad |
| woebegone, woeful | affected by or full of grief or woe |
| See also | joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy |
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| unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent |
| Opposite | joyful | Full of or producing joy |
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| Spanish | afligido, pesaroso |
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| Nouns | sorrowfulness | a state of gloomy sorrow |
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| sorrowfulness | the state of being sad |
| Adverbs | sorrowfully | with sadness |
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| sorrowfully | in a sorrowful manner |
