Sorrowful
['sɒrə(ʊ)fʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['sɑrofl]
Definition
(adj.) 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 .
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Definition
(a.) Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
(a.) Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Grieved, afflicted, in sorrow, in mourning.[2]. Sad, mournful, grievous, lamentable, distressing, painful, dismal, doleful, melancholy, sorry, piteous, woful, rueful, moving pity, exciting compassion.
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Examples
- His laugh had not quite left him either, but it was like the echo of a joyful sound, and that is always sorrowful. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But if his countenance was more sorrowful, his voice was more cheerful than that of his sister, especially when he addressed the old man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Do not be sorrowful, do not grieve, I broke out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You puzzle me, Jane: your look and tone of sorrowful audacity perplex and pain me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Burying my head in my arms I turned, broken, and sorrowful, down the trail from the cave. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Many and many a sorrowful story like this these stony walls could tell if they could but speak. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What sorrowful eyes you fix on me! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mien. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Not ill, but tired and sorrowful. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The age of iron is not yet supreme, For youth still throbs in the old veins of Mother Earth, wan and weary with sorrowful centuries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is the beginning of the Sorrowful Way, or the Way of Grief. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I stood upon a chair when I was left alone, and looked into the glass to see how red my eyes were, and how sorrowful my face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Though I was timid about saying it, I ventured because of the sorrowful tone in which he had spoken. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I thought his tone sounded sorrowful, but looking at him, I saw his kind face lighted up by its pleasantest smile. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- God knows I had no wish to leave even the shadow of a sorrowful impression with any one of them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Something seemed to pass into my place that was like the angel he thought me, and I felt so sorrowful for the loss he had sustained! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- After some attempts, therefore, to be permitted to begin again, they were obliged to thank Mrs. Weston, look sorrowful, and have done. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You need not be sorrowful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A sad and desolate place it was, a gloomy, sorrowful place that gave me a strange sensation of mournfulness and even dread. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I took the hand of Elizabeth: You are sorrowful, my love. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- When Miss Ophelia expatiated on Topsy's naughty, wicked conduct, the child looked perplexed and sorrowful, but said, sweetly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- De Bracy himself arose from the ground, and cast a sorrowful glance after his conqueror. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I hope it may not appear very unnatural or bad in me that I then became heavily sorrowful to think I had ever been reared. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The coach was at the little lawn-gate--we had not come out until we heard the wheels--and thus I left her, with a sorrowful heart. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now, it's curious,' said Pell, looking round with a sorrowful smile; 'Mrs. Pell was a widow. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me, for a moment, with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Bleak House, he repeated--and his tone did NOT sound sorrowful, I found--must learn to take care of itself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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