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UK
/sˈɒɹəʊfəl/
]
[ US /ˈsɑɹoʊfəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɑɹoʊfəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
even in laughter the heart is sorrowful
sorrowful news
sorrowful widows
a sorrowful tale of death and despair
How To Use sorrowful In A Sentence
- Her face was anxious and sorrowful.
- In other news, Eddie seems to be going through sorrowful times.
- I think in India it is still an issue of economics and you have to worry about the future, and if your business fails, your entire clan is affected and is sorrowful and that puts additional pressure.
- To and fro she went, in noiseless ministry, as the long, dreadful days wore away, with a quiet smile on her lips, and in her dark, sorrowful eyes the rapt look of a pictured saint in some dim cathedral niche. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
- Sorrowful tears slid down her cheeks and splotched the words of the paper.
- He closed his eyes and listened to the Forestmaster's whimsical voice change to a somber, sorrowful tone.
- And found there the blessed Denis preaching, and made him cruelly to be beaten, bespit and despised, and fast to be bounden with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and to be brought tofore him: And when he saw that the saints were constant and firm in the acknowledging of our Lord, he was much heavy and sorrowful. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
- The edict, it states, was drawn up because of the ‘critical and sorrowful situation and lack of security and to serve the common good’.
- My daughter!" exclaimed the piper, in a half-angry, half-sorrowful voice, while a slight moisture forced itself through his orbless lids. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
- Certainly, the movies are comedies, emphatically painful and sorrowful comedies, but they are comedies.