Sorrow
['sɒrəʊ] or ['sɔro]
Definition
(noun.) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; 'he tried to express his sorrow at her loss'.
(noun.) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; 'he drank to drown his sorrows'; 'he wrote a note expressing his regret'; 'to his rue, the error cost him the game'.
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Definition
(n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness.
(n.) To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to be sad; to be sorry.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Grief, sadness, affliction, mourning, trouble.[2]. Regret, vexation, chagrin.
v. n. Grieve, mourn, be sad.
Typist: Nelda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Affliction, grief, sadness, trouble, regret, distress, mental_pain, ruth,mourning
ANT:Joy, gladness, rejoicing
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Definition
n. pain of mind: grief: affliction: lamentation: the devil (Irish Sorra).—v.i. to feel sorrow or pain of mind: to grieve.—p.adj. Sorr′owed. (Shak.) accompanied with sorrow.—adj. Sorr′owful full of sorrow: causing showing or expressing sorrow: sad: dejected.—adv. Sorr′owfully.—n. Sorr′owfulness.—adj. Sorr′owless free from sorrow.
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Examples
- Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her countenance expressed the deepest sorrow that is consistent with resignation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Humphrey expressed his sorrow at Clym's condition, and added, Now, if yours was low-class work like mine, you could go on with it just the same. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are very kind not to reproach me, she said: I weep, and a bitter pang of intolerable sorrow tears my heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The woman of Pablo could feel her rage changing to sorrow and to a feeling of the thwarting of all hope and promise. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Consoling her, my own sorrows were assuaged; my sincerity won her entire conviction. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Earthly joys and hopes and sorrows Break like ripples on the strand Of the deep and solemn river Where her willing feet now stand. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They each felt his sorrows, and their own obligations, and Marianne, by general consent, was to be the reward of all. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She often, in her brief life, shed tears, she had frequent sorrows; she smiled between, gladdening whatever saw her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some pitying hand may find it there, when I and my sorrows are dust. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He'd ha' cried out for his own sorrows, next. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Love, and her child, Hope, which can bestow wealth on poverty, strength on the weak, and happiness on the sorrowing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She made it her task to attend the sick, comfort the sorrowing, assist the aged, and partake the sports and awaken the gaiety of the young. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But will he have no sorrow, or shall we say that although he cannot help sorrowing, he will moderate his sorrow? Plato. The Republic.
- Burns, lamenting that his share uptears the bed of the wee modest crimson-tipped flower and sorrowing that he has turned the Mousie from its bit o' leaves and stibble by the cruel coulter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, and then he fell upon the body of Kala and sobbed out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typist: Margery