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sorrow
noun as in extreme upset, grief
Strongest matches
agony, anguish, hardship, heartache, heartbreak, melancholy, misery, mourning, pain, regret, remorse, repentance, sadness, suffering, unhappiness, worry
Strong matches
affliction, blow, blues, care, catastrophe, dejection, depression, distress, dolor, grieving, lamenting, misfortune, rain, rue, trial, tribulation, trouble, weeping, woe, wretchedness
Weak matches
verb as in be very upset, grieved
Strong matches
agonize, bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, groan, lament, moan, mourn, regret, sob, weep
Weak matches
be sad, carry on, cry a river, eat heart out, hang crepe, sing the blues, take on
Example Sentences
His father, Richard Taylor, once said he wanted his son's name "to be a symbol of greatness, not sorrow."
And there’s a sort of incandescent poetic beauty to all that, and there’s just the sorrow to it because you also realize it’s the last of that moment.
Interim leader Muhammad Yunus expressed in a statement his "deep shock and sorrow over the news of casualties in various districts".
"I will carry this sorrow in my conscience," he wrote, asking the victims' mothers for forgiveness.
If he had known his inbound plane was backed up, he would have reorganized his whole day—and he wouldn’t have been drowning his sorrows in queso.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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