Definition of sorrowful in English:

sorrowful

adjective ˈsɒrə(ʊ)f(ə)lˈsɒrə(ʊ)fʊlˈsɔrəfəl

1Feeling or showing grief.
she looked at him with sorrowful eyes
Example sentencesExamples
- My dear friend's eyes, wet with tears, fixed me in a sorrowful gaze.
- By now you all know Armagh's fate and the village will either be in jubilant or sorrowful mood.
- The quiet end has Paarsha's boat approaching the village shore, his mother's sorrowful face awaiting the son's homecoming.
- His sorrowful, pale face stretches into a grin.
- As he put the key in the lock he turned to me with a sorrowful shake of the head and whispered: ‘Never remarry in haste.’
- I could tell she was quite sorrowful, I could hear tears in her voice, but other than that, there was no comment.
- Here's a small sample of sorrowful words taken from the testimonies.
- Whenever Harold falters, Albert produces one of his pained, sorrowful looks and laments about being a burden to him.
- Smokey's words are sorrowful, but he seems simultaneously elated to have found the right images to convey that pain.
- The largest crowd ever seen attended to pay a sorrowful farewell to beloved Edel.
- Celes simply turned to Nataki and gave her a sorrowful smile.
- A famous Ottoman song has sorrowful soldiers trudging up the ‘steep road’ to Mus, and never coming back.
- The sorrowful good-byes continued for several minutes before a police officer replaced the handcuffs.
- Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell.
- He added: ‘When we heard about the causeway being breached we were sorrowful.’
- Don Quixote grows calm and sorrowful, and with good reason, as he approaches his final defeat at the hands of Sanson Carrasco.
- His eyes were liquid and sorrowful but totally uncomprehending.
- But as ever, caution is required: the unleashing of a sorrowful and angry superpower is a frightening prospect for the world.
- Fortunately, the reactions have been sane, yet sorrowful.
- As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.
Synonyms
sad, unhappy, dejected, regretful, depressed, downcast, miserable, downhearted, down, despondent, despairing, disconsolate, desolate, bowed down, wretched, glum, gloomy, doleful, dismal, blue, melancholy, melancholic, low-spirited, mournful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, grief-stricken
informal down in the mouth, down in the dumps
1. 1.1 Causing grief.
  the sorrowful news of his father's death
  Example sentencesExamples
  I enjoyed listening to the last track, The Voice Of Love, though the low, sorrowful music made me cry a bit as I listened.
  It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage.
  The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’.
  Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies.
  I look down at the results of 20 minutes of pushing and scraping to find that all I've achieved is a sorrowful two drops of purée.
  They just happen to be very sad, painful comedies, very sorrowful.
  Her sorrowful situation was a topic well worth avoiding.
  Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending.
  There's certainly more facts to discover about this whole ugly, sorrowful story.
  In other news, Eddie seems to be going through sorrowful times.
  It's a sorrowful tale, full of tragic imagery - go on, just read those lyrics.
  She wept because the tale she read was tragic, deeply sorrowful without more than the slightest bit of hope in it.
  Everyone who knew David sends condolences and love to Janet at this sorrowful time.
  Well, news which has sorrowful ramifications for the band anyway.
  It was a sorrowful event in the life of the Queen.
  The army has publicly acknowledged its responsibilities for the violent and sorrowful past that affected us all.
  I'll be back later with the sorrowful news when I figure out how I want to say it.
  Neither of you have any idea of the true human, sorrowful cost of war nor do you care that you are ruining lives by the thousands and thousands.
  ‘Under the weather’ usefully conveys whatever sorrowful state of health you might find yourself in.
  There were prints of the front pages of some of the top international dailies with the sorrowful news that made headlines that day.
  Synonyms
  tragic, sad, unhappy, awful, miserable, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pitiable, grievous, traumatic, upsetting, depressing, distressing, disturbing, disquieting, dispiriting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, agonizing, harrowing
  rare distressful

Derivatives

sorrowfully

adverb ˈsɒrə(ʊ)f(ə)liˈsɒrə(ʊ)fʊliˈsɔrəfəli

He sorrowfully mumbled his last lines with his head trapped in the curtains.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘That's the longest you'll been gone,’ she added sorrowfully.
- But, as Irwine would doubtless point out, sorrowfully but firmly, the security of England's institutions is more important than the fate of a light-headed milkmaid.
- However, upon arriving on campus, I sorrowfully discovered that this club was hibernating.
- Finally, he experienced a sort of seizure, and I watched sorrowfully as his wife wheeled him away.

sorrowfulness

noun

Let us take the sorrowfulness of Finnish music as an example.
Example sentencesExamples
- He would like me to be disarmed by his sorrowfulness and he is unsure whether I would be disarmed, so that makes him uneasy.
- One day, when he was living with his mother in Ch'i, she was struck with the sorrowfulness of his aspect as he stood leaning against a pillar, and asked him the cause of it.
- This question touches us deeply, in its sorrowfulness and its honesty.
- Scenes of deep tragedy are treated with such a matter of factness and raw economy they become almost palpable in their unprotected sorrowfulness.

Origin

Old English sorhful (see sorrow, -ful).

Definition of sorrowful in US English:

sorrowful

adjectiveˈsôrəfəlˈsɔrəfəl

1Feeling or showing grief.
she looked at him with sorrowful eyes
Example sentencesExamples
- Smokey's words are sorrowful, but he seems simultaneously elated to have found the right images to convey that pain.
- The quiet end has Paarsha's boat approaching the village shore, his mother's sorrowful face awaiting the son's homecoming.
- Here's a small sample of sorrowful words taken from the testimonies.
- He added: ‘When we heard about the causeway being breached we were sorrowful.’
- As he put the key in the lock he turned to me with a sorrowful shake of the head and whispered: ‘Never remarry in haste.’
- Celes simply turned to Nataki and gave her a sorrowful smile.
- Don Quixote grows calm and sorrowful, and with good reason, as he approaches his final defeat at the hands of Sanson Carrasco.
- A famous Ottoman song has sorrowful soldiers trudging up the ‘steep road’ to Mus, and never coming back.
- The largest crowd ever seen attended to pay a sorrowful farewell to beloved Edel.
- As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.
- Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell.
- My dear friend's eyes, wet with tears, fixed me in a sorrowful gaze.
- By now you all know Armagh's fate and the village will either be in jubilant or sorrowful mood.
- His eyes were liquid and sorrowful but totally uncomprehending.
- Fortunately, the reactions have been sane, yet sorrowful.
- His sorrowful, pale face stretches into a grin.
- Whenever Harold falters, Albert produces one of his pained, sorrowful looks and laments about being a burden to him.
- But as ever, caution is required: the unleashing of a sorrowful and angry superpower is a frightening prospect for the world.
- I could tell she was quite sorrowful, I could hear tears in her voice, but other than that, there was no comment.
- The sorrowful good-byes continued for several minutes before a police officer replaced the handcuffs.
Synonyms
sad, unhappy, dejected, regretful, depressed, downcast, miserable, downhearted, down, despondent, despairing, disconsolate, desolate, bowed down, wretched, glum, gloomy, doleful, dismal, blue, melancholy, melancholic, low-spirited, mournful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, grief-stricken
1. 1.1 Causing grief.
  the sorrowful news of his father's death
  Example sentencesExamples
  The army has publicly acknowledged its responsibilities for the violent and sorrowful past that affected us all.
  I'll be back later with the sorrowful news when I figure out how I want to say it.
  Everyone who knew David sends condolences and love to Janet at this sorrowful time.
  Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending.
  The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’.
  They just happen to be very sad, painful comedies, very sorrowful.
  She wept because the tale she read was tragic, deeply sorrowful without more than the slightest bit of hope in it.
  It's a sorrowful tale, full of tragic imagery - go on, just read those lyrics.
  In other news, Eddie seems to be going through sorrowful times.
  It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage.
  Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies.
  I look down at the results of 20 minutes of pushing and scraping to find that all I've achieved is a sorrowful two drops of purée.
  I enjoyed listening to the last track, The Voice Of Love, though the low, sorrowful music made me cry a bit as I listened.
  There's certainly more facts to discover about this whole ugly, sorrowful story.
  Well, news which has sorrowful ramifications for the band anyway.
  Her sorrowful situation was a topic well worth avoiding.
  ‘Under the weather’ usefully conveys whatever sorrowful state of health you might find yourself in.
  It was a sorrowful event in the life of the Queen.
  There were prints of the front pages of some of the top international dailies with the sorrowful news that made headlines that day.
  Neither of you have any idea of the true human, sorrowful cost of war nor do you care that you are ruining lives by the thousands and thousands.
  Synonyms
  tragic, sad, unhappy, awful, miserable, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pitiable, grievous, traumatic, upsetting, depressing, distressing, disturbing, disquieting, dispiriting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, agonizing, harrowing

Origin

Old English sorhful (see sorrow, -ful).

单词	sorrowful
释义	Definition of sorrowful in English: sorrowful adjective ˈsɒrə(ʊ)f(ə)lˈsɒrə(ʊ)fʊlˈsɔrəfəl 1Feeling or showing grief. she looked at him with sorrowful eyes Example sentencesExamples My dear friend's eyes, wet with tears, fixed me in a sorrowful gaze. By now you all know Armagh's fate and the village will either be in jubilant or sorrowful mood. The quiet end has Paarsha's boat approaching the village shore, his mother's sorrowful face awaiting the son's homecoming. His sorrowful, pale face stretches into a grin. As he put the key in the lock he turned to me with a sorrowful shake of the head and whispered: ‘Never remarry in haste.’ I could tell she was quite sorrowful, I could hear tears in her voice, but other than that, there was no comment. Here's a small sample of sorrowful words taken from the testimonies. Whenever Harold falters, Albert produces one of his pained, sorrowful looks and laments about being a burden to him. Smokey's words are sorrowful, but he seems simultaneously elated to have found the right images to convey that pain. The largest crowd ever seen attended to pay a sorrowful farewell to beloved Edel. Celes simply turned to Nataki and gave her a sorrowful smile. A famous Ottoman song has sorrowful soldiers trudging up the ‘steep road’ to Mus, and never coming back. The sorrowful good-byes continued for several minutes before a police officer replaced the handcuffs. Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell. He added: ‘When we heard about the causeway being breached we were sorrowful.’ Don Quixote grows calm and sorrowful, and with good reason, as he approaches his final defeat at the hands of Sanson Carrasco. His eyes were liquid and sorrowful but totally uncomprehending. But as ever, caution is required: the unleashing of a sorrowful and angry superpower is a frightening prospect for the world. Fortunately, the reactions have been sane, yet sorrowful. As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody. Synonyms sad, unhappy, dejected, regretful, depressed, downcast, miserable, downhearted, down, despondent, despairing, disconsolate, desolate, bowed down, wretched, glum, gloomy, doleful, dismal, blue, melancholy, melancholic, low-spirited, mournful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, grief-stricken informal down in the mouth, down in the dumps 1.1 Causing grief. the sorrowful news of his father's death Example sentencesExamples I enjoyed listening to the last track, The Voice Of Love, though the low, sorrowful music made me cry a bit as I listened. It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage. The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’. Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies. I look down at the results of 20 minutes of pushing and scraping to find that all I've achieved is a sorrowful two drops of purée. They just happen to be very sad, painful comedies, very sorrowful. Her sorrowful situation was a topic well worth avoiding. Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending. There's certainly more facts to discover about this whole ugly, sorrowful story. In other news, Eddie seems to be going through sorrowful times. It's a sorrowful tale, full of tragic imagery - go on, just read those lyrics. She wept because the tale she read was tragic, deeply sorrowful without more than the slightest bit of hope in it. Everyone who knew David sends condolences and love to Janet at this sorrowful time. Well, news which has sorrowful ramifications for the band anyway. It was a sorrowful event in the life of the Queen. The army has publicly acknowledged its responsibilities for the violent and sorrowful past that affected us all. I'll be back later with the sorrowful news when I figure out how I want to say it. Neither of you have any idea of the true human, sorrowful cost of war nor do you care that you are ruining lives by the thousands and thousands. ‘Under the weather’ usefully conveys whatever sorrowful state of health you might find yourself in. There were prints of the front pages of some of the top international dailies with the sorrowful news that made headlines that day. Synonyms tragic, sad, unhappy, awful, miserable, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pitiable, grievous, traumatic, upsetting, depressing, distressing, disturbing, disquieting, dispiriting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, agonizing, harrowing rare distressful Derivatives sorrowfully adverb ˈsɒrə(ʊ)f(ə)liˈsɒrə(ʊ)fʊliˈsɔrəfəli He sorrowfully mumbled his last lines with his head trapped in the curtains. Example sentencesExamples ‘That's the longest you'll been gone,’ she added sorrowfully. But, as Irwine would doubtless point out, sorrowfully but firmly, the security of England's institutions is more important than the fate of a light-headed milkmaid. However, upon arriving on campus, I sorrowfully discovered that this club was hibernating. Finally, he experienced a sort of seizure, and I watched sorrowfully as his wife wheeled him away. sorrowfulness noun Let us take the sorrowfulness of Finnish music as an example. Example sentencesExamples He would like me to be disarmed by his sorrowfulness and he is unsure whether I would be disarmed, so that makes him uneasy. One day, when he was living with his mother in Ch'i, she was struck with the sorrowfulness of his aspect as he stood leaning against a pillar, and asked him the cause of it. This question touches us deeply, in its sorrowfulness and its honesty. Scenes of deep tragedy are treated with such a matter of factness and raw economy they become almost palpable in their unprotected sorrowfulness. Origin Old English sorhful (see sorrow, -ful). Definition of sorrowful in US English: sorrowful adjectiveˈsôrəfəlˈsɔrəfəl 1Feeling or showing grief. she looked at him with sorrowful eyes Example sentencesExamples Smokey's words are sorrowful, but he seems simultaneously elated to have found the right images to convey that pain. The quiet end has Paarsha's boat approaching the village shore, his mother's sorrowful face awaiting the son's homecoming. Here's a small sample of sorrowful words taken from the testimonies. He added: ‘When we heard about the causeway being breached we were sorrowful.’ As he put the key in the lock he turned to me with a sorrowful shake of the head and whispered: ‘Never remarry in haste.’ Celes simply turned to Nataki and gave her a sorrowful smile. Don Quixote grows calm and sorrowful, and with good reason, as he approaches his final defeat at the hands of Sanson Carrasco. A famous Ottoman song has sorrowful soldiers trudging up the ‘steep road’ to Mus, and never coming back. The largest crowd ever seen attended to pay a sorrowful farewell to beloved Edel. As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody. Some 300 others stood outside, laying wreaths at the old iron gates where a bell ringer tolled sorrowful notes from a small bell. My dear friend's eyes, wet with tears, fixed me in a sorrowful gaze. By now you all know Armagh's fate and the village will either be in jubilant or sorrowful mood. His eyes were liquid and sorrowful but totally uncomprehending. Fortunately, the reactions have been sane, yet sorrowful. His sorrowful, pale face stretches into a grin. Whenever Harold falters, Albert produces one of his pained, sorrowful looks and laments about being a burden to him. But as ever, caution is required: the unleashing of a sorrowful and angry superpower is a frightening prospect for the world. I could tell she was quite sorrowful, I could hear tears in her voice, but other than that, there was no comment. The sorrowful good-byes continued for several minutes before a police officer replaced the handcuffs. Synonyms sad, unhappy, dejected, regretful, depressed, downcast, miserable, downhearted, down, despondent, despairing, disconsolate, desolate, bowed down, wretched, glum, gloomy, doleful, dismal, blue, melancholy, melancholic, low-spirited, mournful, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, crestfallen, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, grief-stricken 1.1 Causing grief. the sorrowful news of his father's death Example sentencesExamples The army has publicly acknowledged its responsibilities for the violent and sorrowful past that affected us all. I'll be back later with the sorrowful news when I figure out how I want to say it. Everyone who knew David sends condolences and love to Janet at this sorrowful time. Thousands of people have been displaced and this is extremely sorrowful and heartrending. The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’. They just happen to be very sad, painful comedies, very sorrowful. She wept because the tale she read was tragic, deeply sorrowful without more than the slightest bit of hope in it. It's a sorrowful tale, full of tragic imagery - go on, just read those lyrics. In other news, Eddie seems to be going through sorrowful times. It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage. Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies. I look down at the results of 20 minutes of pushing and scraping to find that all I've achieved is a sorrowful two drops of purée. I enjoyed listening to the last track, The Voice Of Love, though the low, sorrowful music made me cry a bit as I listened. There's certainly more facts to discover about this whole ugly, sorrowful story. Well, news which has sorrowful ramifications for the band anyway. Her sorrowful situation was a topic well worth avoiding. ‘Under the weather’ usefully conveys whatever sorrowful state of health you might find yourself in. It was a sorrowful event in the life of the Queen. There were prints of the front pages of some of the top international dailies with the sorrowful news that made headlines that day. Neither of you have any idea of the true human, sorrowful cost of war nor do you care that you are ruining lives by the thousands and thousands. Synonyms tragic, sad, unhappy, awful, miserable, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pitiable, grievous, traumatic, upsetting, depressing, distressing, disturbing, disquieting, dispiriting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, agonizing, harrowing Origin Old English sorhful (see sorrow, -ful).
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