Thesaurus / sorrowful
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synonyms for sorrowful
- affecting
- distressing
- heartrending
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- painful
- plaintive
- sad
- sorry
- afflicted
- dejected
- depressed
- disconsolate
- doleful
- dolent
- full of sorrow
- grievous
- heartbroken
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- lamentable
- miserable
- piteous
- rueful
- ruthful
- sick at heart
- singing the blues
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- unhappy
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
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Still, she said there have been many nights where she has lain awake, thinking of Floyd, sorrowful that she did not do more to save his life.
MY VIOLENT ASSAULT, THE BYSTANDERS WHO DID NOTHING, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BEAR WITNESSKIM LEAPRIL 2, 2021VOXShe felt very sorrowful as she smoothed the homely garments, and placed them in a small leathern trunk.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIENey and Marmont did not accompany the other Commissioners with their sorrowful terms; like rats they left the sinking ship.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONFor the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken hold on me.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe post-boy returned, sorrowful, to Petersfield, where he procured another horse and rode back to Liphook.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERFor she must always find something to be glad of before she could be sorrowful about any thing.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERThe doctor made a sound of sorrowful assent, as if much struck; then said, "you don't mean he has never been there since?"
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEAnd then when at length I did look at her, I could not tear myself away from such a sorrowful object of contemplation.
MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCE"Right—mind you don't," said Dr. May, and Ethel was surprised to see how sorrowful his face became.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGELet us practise these devotions to enkindle in our hearts a true and ardent love for our sorrowful Mother.
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANSVARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO SORROWFUL
- austere
- black
- bleak
- blue
- comfortless
- dark
- dejected
- dejecting
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispiriting
- dolorous
- drab
- draggy
- drearisome
- dreary
- dull
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- grim
- in the dumps
- jarring
- joyless
- melancholy
- miserable
- mopey
- mournful
- oppressive
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- sullen
- tenebrific
- uncomfortable
- wintry
- woebegone
- woeful
- all torn up
- blue
- bummed-out
- cast-down
- dejected
- despairing
- disconsolate
- discouraged
- disheartened
- dispirited
- doleful
- down
- downcast
- downhearted
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- griefstricken
- grieving
- hopeless
- in a blue funk
- in despair
- in the pits
- low
- low-spirited
- melancholy
- miserable
- morose
- mourning
- sad
- shot down
- sorrowful
- woebegone
- wretched
- bad
- black
- blue
- cheerless
- cold
- comfortless
- crestfallen
- crushed
- dark
- dejected
- desolate
- despairing
- destroyed
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- downcast
- downhearted
- dreary
- forlorn
- gloomy
- grief-stricken
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurting
- in pain
- in the pits
- inconsolable
- low
- melancholy
- miserable
- ripped
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- torn-up
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- afflictive
- black
- boring
- cheerless
- cloudy
- dark
- depressed
- depressing
- desolate
- despondent
- dim
- dingy
- disagreeable
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dispiriting
- doleful
- dolorous
- dull
- forlorn
- frowning
- funereal
- ghastly
- gruesome
- hopeless
- horrible
- horrid
- in the pits
- inauspicious
- joyless
- lonesome
- lowering
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- monotonous
- morbid
- murky
- oppressive
- overcast
- sad
- shadowy
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- tenebrous
- troublesome
- unfortunate
- unhappy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.