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Definition: Sorrowfulness |
SorrowfulnessNoun1. The state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness". 2. A state of gloomy sorrow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sorrowfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references) |
Synonyms: SorrowfulnessSynonyms: mournfulness (n), ruthfulness (n), sadness (n), sorrow (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sorrowfulness |
| English words defined with "sorrowfulness": plaintiveness. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sorrowfulness | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sorrowfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Traurigkeit (cheerlessness, dolorousness, lugubriousness, mournfulness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orrowfulnesssay опечаленность. (various references) tính chất bu"n rầu (mournfulness), tính chất bu"n phiền (sorriness), tính chất âu sầu, tính chất đau đớn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sorrowfulness": sorrowfulnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-s-u-w" | |
-3 letters: sunflowers. | |
-4 letters: fluoroses, foresworn, sorrowful, sunflower. | |
-5 letters: floorers, foreruns, foreworn, forswore, forsworn, foulness, frowners, roofless, slowness, snowless, sourness, sulfones, sunroofs, swooners, unlooses. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-s-u-w" | |
+2 letters: sorrowfulnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 72 72 6F 77 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o r r o w f u l n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0072 0072 006F 0077 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53818484818972877880718585 |
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