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- 1. feeling or showing grief: "she looked at him with sorrowful eyes" Similar Opposite
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Sorrowful means very sad, dejected, or dolorous. It is a literary adjective that can describe a person, a sound, or a situation. See synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Sorrowful means very sad, especially in a literary or formal context. Learn how to use this adjective, its synonyms, and its opposite, with examples from various sources.
Sorrowful means full of or marked by sorrow, or expressive of or inducing sorrow. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for sorrowful.
Sorrowful definition: full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.. See examples of SORROWFUL used in a sentence.
1. full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad. 2. showing or expressing sorrow; mournful; plaintive.
Definition of sorrowful adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Use the adjective sorrowful to describe a sad feeling, especially when it involves grief or loss. You feel sorrowful when you lose someone you love. Sorrowful is a melancholy adjective: when your heart is broken, you are sorrowful, and when your beloved cat dies you're also sorrowful.