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Synonyms for sorrowful
adj very upset; grieving- 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
Antonyms for sorrowful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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More words related to sorrowful
brokenhearted
adjective. devastated
cheerless
adjective. depressing, unhappy
- 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
despondent
adjective. depressed
disconsolate
adjective. depressed, unhappy
- 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
dismal
adjective. bleak, dreary, gloomy
- 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.