 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sorrowful
adjective: 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 [ant: {joyful}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sorrowful \Sor"row*ful\, adjective [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.]
1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected;
distressed. ''This sorrowful prisoner.'' --Chaucer.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
--Matt. xxvi.
38.
2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable;
grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
Syn: Sad; mournful; dismal; disconsolate; drear; dreary;
grievous; lamentable; doleful; distressing.
-- {Sor"row*ful*ly}, adverb --
{Sor"row*ful*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "sorrowful":
Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished,
bitter, bleak, blue, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, complaining,
crestfallen, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing,
depressive, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal,
dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful,
dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast, dreary,
dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, gloomy, grief-stricken,
griefful, grieved, grievous, hapless, heartsick, howling, in grief,
in the doldrums, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive,
lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moanful, mournful, moving,
painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiable, plaintive,
plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, puling, querulous, regretful,
regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore,
sorrow-laden, sorrow-stricken, sorrowed, sorrowing, sorry, tearful,
touching, troublous, ululant, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy,
unlucky, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, woebegone, woeful,
wretched
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