Sorrowful
/ˈsɔɹoʊfəl/ adj
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
- 2 Producing sorrow; causing grief.
"sorrowful accident"
Adjective
- 1 experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss wordnet
Example
More examples"She looks sorrowful and forlorn."
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”).