Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sorrowful"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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; lamentable; doleful; distressing. --
{Sor"row*ful*ly}, adv. -- {Sor"row*ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sorrowful
adj : experiencing or marked 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 14:13 [ant: {joyful}]
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