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Sorrowful

//ˈsɔɹoʊfəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
  2. 2
    Producing sorrow; causing grief.

    "sorrowful accident"

Adjective
  1. 1
    experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).

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