Sorrow

Definition: Sorrow

Sorrow

Noun

1. An emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement; "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss".

2. Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret".

3. Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John".

4. The state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness".

Verb

1. Feel grief; eat one's heart out.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sorrow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Sorrow

Adversity

Go downhill, go to rack and ruin; (destruction), go to the dogs; fall, fall from one's high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; come to grief; be all over, be up with; bring a wasp's nest about one's ears, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.

Condolence

Verb: condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament; with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.

Dejection

Hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus.

Excitability

Adverb: "like patience on a monument smiling at grief"; aequo animo, in cold blood; more in sorrow than in anger.

Forgiveness

Phrase: veniam petimusque damusque vicissim; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner; " the offender never pardons".

Lamentation

Verb: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with; fret; (suffer); wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem; (regret); give sorrow words.

Pain

Sadden; make unhappy; plunge into sorrow, grieve, fash, afflict, distress; cut up, cut to the heart.

Phrase: "the iron entered into our soul"; haeret lateri lethalis arundo; one's heart bleeding; "down, thou climbing sorrow"; "mirth cannot move a soul in agony"; nessun maggior dolere che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things"; "the Niobe of Nations".

Haunt the memory; weigh on the heart, prey on the heart, weigh on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, prey on the spirits; bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; add a nail to one's coffin.

Concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief.

Crosswords: Sorrow

InsteadI was surrounded by an endless sorrow. (Wo hu cang long; writing credit: Hui-Ling Wang)

Parting is such sweet sorrow chump (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn)

The sun for sorrow will not show his head (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

I am sorrow. (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara)

I am sorrow and longing an hope unfulfilled (She; writing credit: H. Rider Haggard; Ruth Rose)

We all have sorrow (Lean On Me; performing artist: Bill Withers)

It's all about joy that comes out of sorrow (All About Soul; performing artist: Billy Joel)

My Maria there were some blue and sorrow times (My Maria; performing artist: BROOKS & DUNN)

Wrapped in sorrow Words are token (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me; performing artist: Culture Club)

Sorrow is a lonely feeling (Between You And Me; performing artist: DC Talk)

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Sweet sorrow (references; author: unknown)

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up. (references; author: unknown)

Repentance is sorrow for the deed, not for getting caught. (references; author: unknown)

You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building their nest on it. (references; author: unknown)

Streets of Early Sorrow (1963)

The Queen of Sorrow Henrietta Maria; or (1923)

Secret Sorrow (1921)

A Man of Sorrow (1916)

The Chalice of Sorrow (1916)

Man of Constant Sorrow (performing artist: Tonic Sol-Fa)

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Books

• A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh (reference)

• Forty Words for Sorrow (reference)

• Sorrow Floats (reference)

• The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mobile Suit Gundam - Movie II (Soldiers of Sorrow) (reference)

• Pots of Gold: The Profit and the Sorrow (reference)

• Storm & Sorrow (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Blue Trail of Sorrow (reference)

• Sorrow (Single) [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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... the painful disfigurement of a child afflicted by yaws, the sorrow of a helpless mother. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Eric Schwab..

Summer pastimes. That poor man is weeping! Some deep sorrow! I must speak to him ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Sisters in sorrow. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow however turns out to be not a state but a process

Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition, through and through, with a sable tinge

He walked along in this way some time, going by chance down streets unknown to him, and forgetting fatigue, as is the case in sorrow.

A wail of sorrow went up from the people

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning and the noontide night

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The last sorrow

The strength or sorrow of people

Sorrow

Sons of sorrow

Son of my sorrow

Sorrow of countenance

Sorrow

Sorrow

That drives away sorrow

Expressions using "sorrow": be in sorrow ♦ bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave ♦ cause sorrow ♦ feel sorrow in common with ♦ give sorrow words ♦ great sorrow ♦ laden with sorrow ♦ more in sorrow than in anger ♦ share in smb.'s sorrow ♦ share one's sorrow ♦ sorrow after smb. ♦ sorrow for smb. ♦ sorrow for smth. ♦ sorrow over smth. ♦ tears of sorrow ♦ two in distress make sorrow less. Additional references.

Beginning with "sorrow": sorrow-saying.

Ending with "sorrow": Seek-sorrow.

Afrikaans

bedruktheid (dejection, depression, oppression, sadness), bedroefdheid (dejection, gloom, grief, sadness). (various references)

Albanian

pikëllim (affliction, dolor, dolour, grief, heartache, wrench), hidhërim (chagrin, dejection, grief, sadness, soreness, unhappiness), farmak (bane, poison), dhimbje (ache, agony, anguish, distress, dolor, dolour, grip, heartache, misery, pain, sympathy, throe), brengë (damp, grief, oppression, sadness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كآبة (bleakness, damp, dejection, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sadness, sombreness, spleen), ‏كرب (agony, anguish, distress), ‏غم (anguish, chagrin, gloom, grief, melancholy, oppress, oppression, pique, soreness), ‏حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness, sadness pain), ‏الم (ache, pain, soreness, trouble), ‏الضراء (distress, trouble), ‏أسى (desolation, pain), ‏أسف (be sorry, grief, grieve, pity, plead guilty, regret, regretful, repent, repentance, rue, sorry), ‏شجن (anxiety, blues), ‏بلية (mischance, misfortune, trial, tribulation, woe), ‏بلوى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съжаление (compassion, pity, regret, repentance), скърбя (grieve, mourn, pine, regret), скърбене (mourning), скръб (affliction, grief, regret, sadness), тъгувам (be melancholic, lament, mourn, yearn), горест (dole, tribulation), оплакване (complaint, grumble, jeremiad, kick, lament, lamentation, moan, mourning, plaint, ululation, wail), нещастие (accident, adversity, affliction, buffet, desolation, distress, evil, fatality, hard luck, infelicity, misery, misfortune, stroke, trouble, unhappiness), покаяние (attrition, penance, penitence, repentance), печал (dolor, dolour, grief, sadness). (various references)

Chinese 

罹 (happen to, suffer from), 痛 (ache, pain), 悲 (grief, sad, sadness), �"�痛, �"� (grief, pity, to grieve for, to lament, to pity). (various references)

Czech

zármutek (bereavement, chagrin, distress, grief, pain, regret, sadness, unhappiness, woe), rmoutit se (grieve), hoře (grief, heartache, pain, woe), žal (bereavement, heartache, heartbreak, pain, pathos, regret, sadness, woe). (various references)

Dutch

smart (annoyance, dejection, disappointment, grief, sadness), droefheid (affliction, dejection, sadness), bedroefdheid (dejection, gloom, grief, sadness). (various references)

Esperanto

malgajeco (grief, sadness), malĝojo (sadness). (various references)

Farsi 

مصیبت (Bale, Calamity, Catastrophe, Curse, Disaster, Tragedy), غمگین کردن (Aggrieve, Grieve, Sadden), غم واندوه (Anguish, Pine), غم (Despondency, Grief, Remorse, Rue), غصه دارکردن (Grieve), غصه (Grief, Heartache, Rue, Woe), حزن (Despondency, Grief), تاسف خودن , سوگ . (various references)

Finnish

suru (grief, mourning, worry), murhe (care, grief). (various references)

French

se chagriner, tristesse, préoccupation, peine, douleur (soreness), diuleur, chagrin, affliction, abattement. (various references)

Frisian

hertsear (dejection, sadness), fertriet (dejection, sadness). (various references)

German

Sorge (alarm, anxiety, anxiousness, care, concern, distress, problem, trouble, worry), Leid (affliction, agony, grief, harm, misfortune, pain, sorry, woe), Kummer (affliction, distress, dolefulness, grief, heartache, misery, pain, trouble, woe), Betrübnis (annoyance, dejection, disappointment, distress, grief, sadness). (various references)

Greek 

λύπη (grief, pain, pity on, regret, regretfulness, sadness, sorrowfullness, woe), λυπούμαι (grieve, regret, rue), θρηνώ (bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, lament, moan, mourn, rue, wail, weep). (various references)

Hebrew 

ע�'מומיות (bleakness, grief, luridness, wistfulness), צער (anguish, dolour, grief, misery), �"אב�" (anguish, anxiety, distress, grief, sadness), �"אבון (anguish, pain, regret, sadness), �"וי (illness, sad, sick, sickness, sorrowful), �"צטערות (grief, regret), א� י� �" (mourning), צר�" (evil, misfortune, spot, trouble, woe), ע�'מ�" (anguish, distress, grief), ממר (affliction, bitterness, rancour), תו�'�" (grief), ל�"צטער (be afraid, be sorry, grieve, mind, regret, rue), ל�"תאבל (grieve, lament, mourn, wail, wear the willow), י�'ון (agony, desolation, gloom, grief, sadness), מ�'� �" (grief), מעצב (dejection, depression, gloom, melancholy), מורת רוח (annoyance, bitterness, grief, miff, rancour, resentment, spite), עצב (dolour, grief, melancholy, pain, sadness, sadness pain, toil). (various references)

Hungarian

szomorúság (dejection, discomfort, dismalness, dreariness, dumps, gloom, grief, mournfulness, ruefulness, sadness, tribulation, woe), bú (dolor, dolour), bánat (chagrin, discomfort, grief, pits, rue, tribulation, trouble, woe). (various references)

Indonesian

kesayangan (affection, darling, love, pet), kedukaan (misery), duka cita (heartache), duka (distress, grief). (various references)

Irish

buairt, brón. (various references)

Italian

tristezza (dejection, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness, somberness, sombreness, unhappiness), pena (ache, achiness, anguish, distress, dolor, dolour, grief, pain, penalty, punishment, scourge, suffering, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

愁傷 (grief), 悲嘆 (anguish, grief), �"�愁 (grief, pathos), �"�悼 (condolence, lament, regret, sympathy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かなしさ (grief, sadness), ゆうか�" (bravery, distress, evening paper, gallantry, heroism, leisured, quiet and secluded, worry), あわれ (compassion, grief, helpless, misery, pathos, pity), あいとう (condolence, lament, regret, sympathy), あいせき (a tablewith someone you don't know, grief, loathing to part, missing someone), あいしょう (affinity, compatibility, fondness for singing, grief, love of reading, pet name, prostitute), ゆうく (apprehension, distress, dread, fear, trouble), かなしみ (grief, sadness), しゅうしょう (agitation, all night long, bedridden, frustration, grief), ふ�"う (accident, death, disaster, lack of filial piety, misfortune, rich ore, undutifulness to one's parents, unhappiness), ふしゅうぎ (accident, death, disaster, misfortune, unhappiness), ぶしゅうぎ (accident, death, disaster, misfortune, unhappiness), うれい (distress, gloomy, grief, sad, unhappy), ひあい (daily interest rate, grief, sadness, time), ひた�" (anguish, grief, lamentation), あいしゅう (attachment, covetous affection, grief, pathos). (various references)

Korean 

비� (Woe). (various references)

Manx

trimshey (dolour, sadness, trouble, trouble bereavement), sou-aigney (anxiety, dejection, despond, mirthlessness), smeih (affliction), seaghyn (affliction, grief, grieving), bran (blackness of soul). (various references)

Norwegian

sorg (dejection, grief, sadness). (various references)

Papiamen

ferdrit (dejection, sadness), disgustu (dejection, disgust, loathing, nausea, sadness). (various references)

Pig Latin

orrowsay.(various references)

Portuguese

tristeza (annoyance, bleakness, dejection, gloom, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness). (various references)

Romanian

se nelinişti, se întrista (darken, darkle, grieve, grow sad, sadden), supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), jale (dejection, despair, gloom, grief, groans, mourning, sage, wailing, woe), alean (grief, longing, melancholy, yearning), amãrãciune (bitter, bitterness, gall, grief, poignancy, vinegar, Wormwood), bãnat (anger, annoyance, blame, spite, suspicion, trouble), bubã (abscess, boil, bruise, drawback, hindrance, puff, swelling, trouble, ulcer), dezolare (desolation, grief), întristare (chagrin, grief, sadness), durere (ache, bale, burden, complaint, dolour, grief, hurt, mourning, pain, pinch, Ruth, suffering, torture, trouble, woe), mâhnire (affliction, desolation, despondency, dismay, distress, grief, sadness, trouble), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), obidã (affliction, grief, humiliation, vexation), plânge dupã (cry, cry for, lament for, mourn for), dor (grief, hankering, longing, wish, woe). (various references)

Russian 

сожаление (compunction, pitying, regret, remorse, repentance), тоска (Angst, boredom, drag, ennui, heartsinking, longing, melancholy, thirst, wearies, yearning), горе (distress, dole, dolour, grief, misery, mourning, pain, teen, tribulation, woe), печаль печальный, печаль (dolor, dolour, grief, mourning, sadness, smart 1). (various references)

Scottish

tùirse, doilgheas (affliction), bròn (grief). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tuga (affliction, distress, grief, heartache, melancholy, ruth, sadness), jad (chagrin, grief, squalor, woe), žalost (affliction, bereavement, chagrin, distress, grief, mourning, regret). (various references)

Slovene

žalost. (various references)

Spanish

tristeza (dejection, dreariness, gloom, lamina, melancholia, misery, sadness). (various references)

Swahili

huzuni (dejection, sadness). (various references)

Swedish

sorg (care, concern, distress, grief, heartache, heartbreak, mourning, pain, sadness). (various references)

Thai

เศร้าใจ (blue, low-spirited), ความเศร้าใจ (dolefulness). (various references)

Turkish

yas tutmak (lament, mourn, wail), tasa (care, concern, mopes), matem tutmak (mourn), matem (lament, mourning), keder (damp, dole, dolefulness, dolor, dolour, dreariness, gloominess, grief, heartbreak, low spirits, plaintiveness, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, unhappiness, woe), gam (gamut, grief, scale, sol-fa, woe), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), şanssızlık (adversity, bad, bad luck, blow, contretemps, hard line, hard luck, hoodoo, ill luck, mischance, misfortune, rotten luck), aci (acerbic, ache, affliction, annoyance, bitter, dejection, disappointment, grief, pain, sadness), acı (ache, acidulous, acrid, affliction, anguish, biting, bitter, brackish, cutting, distress, gnawing, grief, grievous, harsh, heartbreak, hot, hurt, incisive, lamentable, misery, nippy, pain, painful, pang, peppery, poignant, pungent, sad, sardonic, scathing, severe, shrill, sorrowful, splitting, sting, suffering, tragic, trenchant, vitriolic, worry), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sadness, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry), üzülmek (be troubled about, bother, bother about, deplore, feel bad about, feel badly about, fret, grieve, have the hump, languish, regret, rue, sadden, trouble, worry, worry oneself), üzücü olay. (various references)

Turkmen 

цkьnз (regret), gussa. (various references)

Ukrainian

смуток (damp, dejection, depression, despondency, discouragement, funk, shadow), жаль (regret, remorse). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự than van Chúa Giê-xu, sự bu�"n rầu (cloud, depression, sadness, sullenness), sự bu�"n phiền sự kêu than, nỗi đau đớn (affliction, anguish, bale). (various references)

Welsh

trymfryd (sadness), tristwch (sadness), hiraethu (long, yearn), gofid (grief, trouble), galar (grief, mourning), alaeth (grief, grievous, lamentation, sad, sorrowful, wailing), afar (grief). (various references)

ægrimonia, dolor, dolore, dolorem, dolores, dolori, doloribus, doloris, dolorum, ingemesce, ingemescens, ingemescentes, ingemescere, ingemescimus, ingemescit, ingemesco, ingemuerunt, ingemuit, luctu, luctum, luctus, mador maero, maeror, maeror meror, maerore, maeroribus, maeroris, mæstitia, moeror, moestitia. (various references)

cearo, hearm, inwidsorH. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "sorrow": sorrowed, sorrower, sorrowers, sorrowful, sorrowfully, sorrowfulness, sorrowfulnesses, sorrowing, sorrows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sorrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orrow, Smoogro, Soomro, soron, soror, soros, sorrid, sunrow. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: rows, woos.

-3 letters: ors, row, sow, woo, wos.

-4 letters: or, os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: borrows, morrows, sorrows.

+2 letters: cornrows, forswore, forsworn, sorrowed, sorrower, wooraris.

+3 letters: borrowers, coworkers, crossword, dropworts, foreswore, foresworn, forewords, formworks, frostwork, hornworms, hornworts, ironworks, moorworts, overgrows, overwords, overworks, roadworks, rockworks, sorrowers, sorrowful, sorrowing, tomorrows, wardrooms, warerooms, workhorse, workrooms, wormroots, worrisome.

+4 letters: arrowroots, arrowwoods, arrowworms, borrowings, broadsword, brownnoser, crosswords, frostworks, horsepower, nonworkers, outworkers, overbrowse, overcrowds, overpowers, overthrows, roundworms, scrollwork, workforces, workhorses, wrongdoers.