sorrowful

adjectives

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

sorrowful

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sorrowfulness

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sorrowfulness

antonym

joyful

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experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

"an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

anguished, tormented, tortured

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sorrowful through loss or deprivation

"bereft of hope"

bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing

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expressive of severe grief or regret

"shed bitter tears"

bitter

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full of sorrow

brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick

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showing sorrow

dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping

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expressing sorrow often for something past

"an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

elegiac

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causing or marked by grief or anguish

"a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending

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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

lamenting, wailful, wailing

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excessively mournful

lugubrious

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expressing sorrow

mournful, plaintive

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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"- Christina Rossetti

sad

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affected by or full of grief or woe

"his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

woebegone, woeful