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Definition: Sorrowfully |
SorrowfullyAdverb1. In a sorrowful manner. 2. With sadness; in a sorrowful manner; "his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sorrowfully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: SorrowfullySynonym: dolefully (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sorrowfully |
| English words defined with "sorrowfully": Wofully. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They glance at one another sorrowfully. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sorrowfully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sorrowfully" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sorrowfully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | печално (dismally, grievously, sadly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | traurige (dolefully, funereally, lugubriously, woefully), betrübt (afflicts, aggrieved, distressed, gloomy, saddened, saddens, sorrily, sorry, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θλιμμένα (dejectedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tristemente (sadly), con aria desolata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 愁然 , さまざまな理"から (anguishedly, for various reasons, game-ending home run, mean, self-interested, selfish, self-seeking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅうぜ" (mending, repair), さめざめ (anguishedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orrowfullysay tristemente (bleakly, joylessly, sadly). (various references) печально (grievously, moodily, ruefully). (various references) žalosno (pitiably, regretfully, ruefully). (various references) tristemente (darkly, drearly, gloomily, godforsakenly, miserably, mournfully, ruefully, sadly), con pena. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | triste. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-l-l-o-o-r-r-s-u-w-y" | |
-2 letters: sorrowful. | |
-4 letters: follows, furrows, furrowy, wofully. | |
-5 letters: floors, floosy, flours, floury, fluors, flurry, follow, foully, frowsy, furors, furrow, slowly, slurry, sorrow, sourly, woolly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 72 72 6F 77 66 75 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. .-. --- .--. ..-. ..- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o r r o w f u l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0072 0072 006F 0077 0066 0075 006C 006C 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5381848481897287787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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