sorrowful
Adjective
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Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss (synset 301366924)
"sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"also:similar to:
- anguished, tormented, tortured - experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
- bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning, sorrowing - sorrowful through loss or deprivation
- bitter - expressive of severe grief or regret
- brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick - full of sorrow
- dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping - showing sorrow
- elegiac - expressing sorrow often for something past
- grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending - causing or marked by grief or anguish
- lamenting, wailful, wailing - vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
- lugubrious - excessively mournful
- mournful, plaintive - expressing sorrow
- sad - of things that make you feel sad
- woebegone, woeful - affected by or full of grief or woe
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