| 单词 | sorrowful |
| 释义 | sorrowful (once / 546 pages) adj 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. There is a sense of permanent loss behind the word sorrowful. It comes from the sense of being "full of sorrow," and the ultimate root is the Old English word sorg, which means "grief, regret, trouble, or care." WORD FAMILYsorrowful: sorrowfulest, sorrowfully, sorrowfulness+/sorrow: sorrowed, sorrower, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorrows/sorrower: sorrowers/sorrowing: sorrowingly USAGE EXAMPLESFortunately, Jackson’s portrayal grows in power as Lear’s egotistical indignation turns to sorrowful contemplation. Los Angeles Times(Nov 30, 2016) In its statement, it called Shiites “miscreants” and said, “What awaits them in the immediate future, Allah permitting, is more sorrowful and bitter.” New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) The problem is that Americans can’t agree on what to be sorrowful about. Seattle Times(Nov 08, 2016) adj experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss sorrowful widows a sorrowful tale of death and despair sorrowful news "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13 Syn|Ant unhappy experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent anguished, tormented, torturedexperiencing intense pain especially mental pain bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowingsorrowful through loss or deprivation bitterexpressive of severe grief or regret brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsickfull of sorrow dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weepingshowing sorrow elegiacexpressing sorrow often for something past grievous, heartbreaking, heartrendingcausing or marked by grief or anguish lamenting, wailful, wailingvocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression lugubriousexcessively mournful mournful, plaintiveexpressing sorrow sadof things that make you feel sad woebegone, woefulaffected by or full of grief or woe joylessnot experiencing or inspiring joy joyful full of or producing joy happyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure beatificexperiencing or bestowing celestial joy overjoyedextremely joyful joyousfull of or characterized by joy |
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