Defenition of the word sorrowful

• Defenition of the word sorrowful

  • Filled with grief, sorrow, woe.
  • 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
  • experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

Synonyms for the word sorrowful

• • distressed
  • grief-stricken
  • mournful
  • regretful
  • sad
  • sorrowing
  • unhappy

Similar words in the sorrowful

• • anguished
  • bereaved
  • bereft
  • bitter
  • brokenhearted
  • dolorous
  • dolourous
  • elegiac
  • grief-stricken
  • grieving
  • grievous
  • heartbreaking
  • heartbroken
  • heartrending
  • heartsick
  • joyless
  • lachrymose
  • lamentable
  • lamenting
  • lugubrious
  • mournful
  • mourning
  • mourning(a)
  • plaintive
  • sad
  • sorrowful
  • sorrowfully
  • sorrowing
  • sorrowing(a)
  • tearful
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • unhappy
  • wailful
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • woebegone
  • woeful

Antonyms for the word sorrowful

• • joyful

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