What does sorrowful mean?
Definitions for sorrowful
ˈsɒr ə fəl, ˈsɔr-sor·row·ful
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Princeton's WordNet
sorrowfuladjective
experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
"sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
Wiktionary
sorrowfuladjective
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
sorrowfuladjective
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
sorrowful accident
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sorrowfuladjective
Etymology: sorrow and full.
Blessed are they which have been sorrowful for all thy scourges; for they shall rejoice for thee, when they have seen all thy glory. Tob. xiii. 14.
Hannah said, no, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have poured out my soul before the Lord. 1 Sam.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. Job. vi. 7.
Webster Dictionary
Sorrowfuladjective
full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed
Sorrowfuladjective
producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sorrowful in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sorrowful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of sorrowful in a Sentence
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
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