sorrowful

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈsɔɹoʊfəl/
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/ˈsɔɹoʊfəl/ · /ˈsɔɹəfəl/ · /ˈsɑɹoʊfəl/ · /ˈsɑɹəfəl/ · /ˈsɒɹəʊfəl/ · /ˈsɒɹəfəl/ · /ˈsɔɹɐʉfɘl/ · /ˈsɔɹɘfɘl/

Definition of sorrowful

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
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adj

  1. exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
  2. Producing sorrow; causing grief.
    “sorrowful accident”
    “She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.”

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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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