sorrowful | | |
adj. | 1. 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" |
| ~ 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, tormented, tortured | 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 | expressive of severe grief or regret.; "shed bitter tears" |
| ~ brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick | full of sorrow. |
| ~ dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, weeping, tearful | 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" |
| ~ lugubrious | excessively mournful. |
| ~ mournful, plaintive | expressing sorrow. |
| ~ sad | of things that make you feel sad.; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me" |
| ~ woeful, woebegone | affected by or full of grief or woe.; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone" |
| ~ joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy.; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings" |
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