sorrowful

Adjective

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; ; ; ; - Proverbs 14:13
  • "sorrowful widows"
  • "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"
  • "sorrowful news"
  • "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"

Adj

• exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
• Producing sorrow; causing grief.

Examples

• sorrowful accident

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lamentable, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, plaintive, querulous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, tragic, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, upsetting, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Antonyms

joyful