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Synonyms for sorrow
ˈsɒr oʊ, ˈsɔr oʊsor·row
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
sorrow
Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.
See synonyms for HAPPINESS.
Synonyms:
affliction, distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, tribulation, trouble, woPreposition:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.
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Princeton's WordNet
sorrownoun
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
"he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"
Synonyms:
regret, ruefulness, rue, sadness, grief, sorrowfulnessAntonyms:
joyousness, joyfulness, joysorrow, regret, rue, ruefulnessnoun
sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
"he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"
Synonyms:
regret, ruefulness, grief, rue, sorrowfulness, herb of grace, sadnessAntonyms:
joyousness, joyfulness, joygrief, sorrownoun
something that causes great unhappiness
"her death was a great grief to John"
Synonyms:
regret, sadness, ruefulness, brokenheartedness, heartache, sorrowfulness, heartbreak, rue, griefAntonyms:
joyousness, joy, joyfulnesssadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessverb
the state of being sad
"she tired of his perpetual sadness"
Synonyms:
regret, unhappiness, sadness, ruefulness, grief, gloominess, mournfulness, lugubriousness, sorrowfulness, rue, ruthfulnessAntonyms:
joyousness, joy, joyfulnessgrieve, sorrowverb
feel grief
Antonyms:
joyfulness, joyousness, joy
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sorrownoun
Synonyms:
grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue, unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavementsorrowverb
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1938 | pain | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#4806 | penalty | |
#6946 | ruth | |
#10700 | grief | |
#10782 | spite | |
#11529 | rue | |
#12121 | regret | |
#12669 | distress | |
#12972 | wo | |
#14621 | sorrow | |
#18051 | sadness | |
#19478 | mourning | |
#25291 | melancholy | |
#25704 | woe | |
#27991 | anguish | |
#31141 | grieve | |
#32452 | heartbreak | |
#36859 | tribulation | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#39184 | heartache | |
#48275 | unhappiness | |
#90464 | contrition | |
#330484 | gloominess |
How to use sorrow in a sentence?
I particularly wanted to say that my father, for I suppose the last 70 years, has given the most remarkable devoted service to The Queen, to my family, and to the country, but also to the whole of the Commonwealth. And as you can imagine, my family and I miss my father enormously. He was a much loved and appreciated figure and apart from anything else I can imagine he would be so deeply touched by the number of other people here and elsewhere around the world and the Commonwealth who also I think, share our loss and our sorrow, my dear Papa was a very special person who I thinkabove all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him, ? he continued.
I have sorrow that this happened, that this man lost his life, but he caused the situation to occur, so, in the end he caused his own( death).
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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