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1 Sorrowful -- rank: 1000

Sorrowful definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SOR'ROWFUL, A. 1. Sad ... Sam. 1. 3. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; as a sorrowful accident. 4. Expressing grief; accompanied with grief; as sorrowful meat. Job 6. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1 ... by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs ...

2 Sorrowfully -- rank: 632

... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SOR'ROWFULLY, adv. In a sorrowful manner; in a manner to produce grief. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a sorrowful manner 2: with sadness; in a sorrowful manner; "his mother looked at him dolefully when he told ... the Army" [syn: dolefully, sorrowfully] Merriam Webster's adverb see sorrowful Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sorrowful Sor"row*ful, a. [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.] 1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. ``This sorrowful prisoner.'' --Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto ...

3 Sorrowfulness -- rank: 560

... Webster's 1828 Dictionary SOR'ROWFULNESS, n. State of being sorrowful; grief. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the state ... sorrow [syn: mournfulness, sorrowfulness, ruthfulness] Merriam Webster's noun see sorrowful Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sorrowful Sor"row*ful, a. [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.] 1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. ``This sorrowful prisoner.'' --Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. --Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident. Syn: Sad; mournful; dismal; disconsolate; drear; dreary; grievous; ...

4 Mournful -- rank: 560

... 1. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as a mournful death. 2. Sorrowful; feeling grief. The mournful fair-- Shall visit her distinguished urn ... Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 15th century 1. expressing sorrow ; sorrowful 2. full of sorrow ; sad 3. causing sorrow or melancholy ... loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous. Collin's Cobuild ... calamitous, lamentable, melancholy, deplorable, woful. 2. Sad, melancholy, lugubrious, doleful, sorrowful, heavy. 3. Sorrowful, sad, unhappy, melancholy, heavy-hearted. Moby Thesaurus Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted ... puling, querulous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, sepulchral, sharp, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, touching, tragic, ululant, uncomfortable, unhappy, upsetting, wailful, ...

5 Doleful -- rank: 517

... Webster's 1828 Dictionary DOLEFUL, a. [dole and full.] 1. Sorrowful; expressing grief; as a doleful whine; a doleful cry. 2 ... a. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. --South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. --Milton. Syn: Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal; dolorous; woe-begone. - Dole"ful ... Version margin. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Sorrowful, rueful, woful, piteous, melancholy, jugubrious, sad. 2. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless ... pitiful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, rueful, ruthful, sad, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, touching, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched

6 Rueful -- rank: 517

... RUEFUL, a ru'ful. [rue and full.] 1. Woeful; mournful; sorrowful; to be lamented. Spur them to rueful work. 2. Expressing ... a. 1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. ``Rueful faces.'' --Dryden. Two rueful figures, with ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Doleful, mournful, woful, sorrowful, lamentable. 2. Melancholy, sad, sorrowful, piteous, pitiful, grievous, lugubrious, dismal. Moby Thesaurus addicted, affecting, afflictive ... self-punishing, self-reproaching, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, sharp, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, tearful, touching, uncomfortable, unhappy about, wistful, woebegone, woeful ...

7 Sad -- rank: 517

... word in the English sense, in any other language.] 1. Sorrowful; affected with grief; cast down with affliction. Th' angelic guards ... Sad bread, heavy bread. [Scot. & Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; gloomy; dejected; depressed; cheerless; downcast; sedate; serious; grave; grievous ... Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sad Sad, v. t. To make sorrowful; to sadden. [Obs.] How it sadded the minister's spirits ... cohesive. 2. Serious, sedate, grave, staid, sober, sombre, saturnine. 3. Sorrowful, melancholy, mournful, downcast, afflicted, heavy, disconsolate, despondent, depressed, dejected, cheerless ... soft, soft-colored, soft-hued, softened, somber, sombrous, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, star-crossed, steel-gray, steely, stone-colored, subdued ...

8 Woful -- rank: 517

Woful definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary WOFUL, a. 1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted. How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace! 2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful day. Jeremiah 17. 3 ... Woe"ful, Woful Wo"ful, a. 1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms a. [Written also Woeful.] 1. Sorrowful, distressed, sad, afflicted, unhappy, grieved, anguished, agonized, miserable, piteous, wretched ... afflicting, afflictive, disastrous, calamitous, dreadful, tragical, deplorable, piteous, pitiable, depressing, sorrowful, saddening. 3. Wretched, paltry, mean, pitiful.

9 Disconsolate -- rank: 462

... and L.] [See Console.] 1. Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; hopeless or not expecting comfort; sad; dejected; melancholy; as a ... disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. --Ray. Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. -- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv ... a. Inconsolable, desolate, forlorn, heart-broken, broken-hearted, comfortless, cheerless, sorrowful, melancholy, sad. Moby Thesaurus affording no hope, apathetic, bad, black ... inconsolable, joyless, low, melancholy, miserable, sick, sick at heart, somber, sorrowful, soul-sick, stricken, suicidal, unconsolable, unhappy, unhopeful, without hope, woebegone ...

10 Mourn -- rank: 462

... 1. To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful. Mourning may be expressed by weeping or audible sounds, or ... his rival's ill success. 1. To utter in a sorrowful manner. The love lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad ... or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or ... Dictionary of English Synonyms I. v. n. Grieve, lament, be sorrowful. II. v. a. Deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, grieve for, sorrow ...

11 Dismal -- rank: 462

... have seen. ] 1. Dark; gloomy; as a dismal shade. 2. Sorrowful; dire; horrid; melancholy; calamitous; unfortunate; as a dismal accident; dismal ... dismal day. --Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as ... dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary 1 ... slaty, slow, smoke-gray, smoky, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, steel-gray, steely, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-colored, stuffy ...

12 Penitent -- rank: 462

... d. PEN'ITENT, n. One that repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions. 1. One under church censure ... i*tent, n. 1. One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions. 2. One under church censure ... Dictionary of English Synonyms I. a. Repentant, contrite, remorseful, sorry, sorrowful. II. n. 1. Repentant. 2. Penitentiary, repentant, penance-doer. Foolish ... returned, prodigal son, regretful, remorseful, repentant, rueful, sad, sheepish, softened, sorrowful, sorry, touched

13 Dolorous -- rank: 462

... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary DOLOROUS, a. [L., grief.] 1. Sorrowful; doleful; dismal; impressing sorrow or grief; as a dolorous object ... cf. F. douloureux. See Dolor.] 1. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. You take ... English Synonyms a. 1. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolesome. 2. Sorrowful, sad, piteous, rueful, woful, lugubrious, mournful, doleful, dolesome. Moby Thesaurus ... grief, poignant, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, touching, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched

14 Piteous -- rank: 462

... definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PIT'EOUS, a. [See Pity.] Sorrowful; mournful; that may excite pity; as a piteous look. 1 ... Lear. --Shak. 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. ``Piteous amends.'' --Milton. Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful ... pitiful ADJ Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Sorrowful, mournful, woful, doleful, rueful, affecting, distressing, grievous, moving pity, exciting ... plaintive, poignant, poor, regrettable, rueful, ruined, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowful, supplicating, tearful, touching, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched

15 Grieve -- rank: 398

... grieve the children of men. Lamentations 3. 3. To make sorrowful; to excite regret in. 4. To offend; to displease; to ... occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try ... agonize, break one's heart, wound the feelings of, make sorrowful. II. v. n. Sorrow, mourn, lament, suffer, bewail, feel regret ...