sorrow

Plural: sorrows

Noun

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
  • "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"
• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
  • "he drank to drown his sorrows"
• something that causes great unhappiness
• the state of being sad
• unhappiness, woe
• (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Verb

Verb Forms: sorrowed, sorrowing, sorrows

• To feel or express deep distress, sadness, or grief.
• feel grief
• To feel or express grief.
• To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

Examples

• He began to SORROW over his terrible tile draw, which offered no vowels.
• Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Synonyms

grief, grieve, regret, rue, ruefulness, sadness, sorrowfulness, adversity, affliction, aggrievance, aggrieve, apocalypse, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, blueness, blues, calamity, catastrophe, condole, crestfallenness, dejection, deplore, depression, despondency, disaster, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, engrieve, erme, forlornness, gloom, grievance, grieven, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, keen, lament, mean, melancholia, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mishappiness, moan, mourn, pine, prosternation, qualm, ruth, sigh, sorrow, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, wail, wayment, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wrong, yearn

Antonyms

joy

Anagrams of sorrow