Adjective
sorrowful (comparative more sorrowful, superlative most sorrowful)
- exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
- sorrowful accident
1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Translations
full of sorrow
- Arabic: مُحْزَن (muḥzan)
- Armenian: վշտալի (hy) (vštali)
- Bulgarian: тъжен (bg) (tǎžen), скръбен (bg) (skrǎben)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 悲哀 (zh) (bēi'āi), 悲痛 (zh) (bēitòng), 悲傷/悲伤 (zh) (bēishāng), 哀愁 (zh) (āichóu)
- Cornish: ahwerek, moredhek
- Czech: smutný (cs) m, truchlící
- Finnish: surullinen (fi)
- French: triste (fr), douloureux (fr)
- German: betrübt (de), kummervoll (de), sorgenvoll, traurig (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍃 (gaurs)
- Hungarian: bús (hu)
- Ingrian: murhekas
- Irish: aiféalach
- Japanese: 痛ましい (ja) (いたましい, itamashii), 悲しい (ja) (かなしい, kanashii)
- Korean: 슬프다 (ko) (seulpeuda)
- Macedonian: та́жен (tážen), скр́бен (skŕben)
- Maori: tuarea, aroaroā
- Old English: ċeariġ, ġeōmor
- Ottoman Turkish: سوخته (suhte)
- Persian: غمناک (fa) (ğamnâk)
- Polish: smutny (pl) m
- Portuguese: magoado (pt) m
- Russian: печа́льный (ru) (pečálʹnyj), гру́стный (ru) (grústnyj), (dolorous) ско́рбный (ru) (skórbnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: brònach
- Spanish: triste (es)
- Turkish: acılı (tr), müteessir (tr), üzüntülü (tr)
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Further reading
- “sorrowful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sorrowful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.