sorrow
Meanings
Plural: sorrows
Noun
- an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
- "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- "he drank to drown his sorrows"
- something that causes great unhappiness
- the state of being sad
- unhappiness, woe
- (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
Verb
- feel grief
- To feel or express grief.
- To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English sorow, sorwe, sorghe, sorȝe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.
Synonyms
adversity, affliction, aggrievance, aggrieve, apocalypse, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, blueness, blues, calamity, catastrophe, condole, crestfallenness, dejection, deplore, depression, despondency, disaster, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, engrieve, erme, forlornness, gloom, grief, grievance, grieve, grieven, hardship, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, keen, lament, mean, melancholia, melancholy, misery, misfortune, mishappiness, moan, mourn, pine, prosternation, qualm, regret, rue, ruefulness, ruth, sadness, sigh, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, vexation, wail, wayment, woe, woefare, wretchedness, wrong, yearn
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
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