Find the of
☀
Appearance
✓Use device theme  
✓Dark theme
✓Light theme

What is the adjective for sorrows?

What's the adjective for sorrows? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb sorrow which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

sorrowful
  1. (of a person) exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught.
  2. Producing sorrow; causing grief.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. sad, unhappy, depressed, miserable, dejected, melancholy, disconsolate, doleful, heartbroken, mournful, woeful, wretched, dismal, despondent, down, downcast, downhearted, woebegone, blue, gloomy, glum, crestfallen, despairing, distressed, forlorn, grieving, inconsolable, low-spirited, melancholic, painful, afflicted, desolate, tearful, brokenhearted, broken-hearted, droopy, grief-stricken, hangdog, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted, joyless, low, lugubrious, saddened, bowed down, piteous, affecting, cast down … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “She saw his sorrowful mother lying on the ground, trembling as though she was dying, and John and her sisters were beside her and comforting her.”
      “There is certainly more to discover about this whole ugly, sorrowful story.”
      “As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.”
sorrowsome
  1. Marked by sorrow; sad; dreary; sorrowful
sorrowed
  1. Made sad, caused to feel sorrow.
sorrowless
  1. (chiefly poetic) Devoid of sorrow.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Sorrowless Field is a real place and was said to date back to the Battle of Flodden Field.”
sorrowy
  1. (obsolete) Sorrowful.
sorrowing
  1. present participle of sorrow
  2. Synonyms:
      3. agonising, agonizing, grieving, mourning, weeping, anguishing, lamenting, suffering, despairing, aching, bleeding, hurting, moaning, pining, wailing, bemoaning, bewailing, crying, deploring, groaning, regretting, sobbing, feeling sad, shedding tears, carrying on, crying a river, singing the blues, eating your heart out … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The sorrowing widower found it hard to relate to his sons.”
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
sorrowing
sorrowing
sorrowingly
sorrowings
sorrowless
sorrowly
sorrowsome
sorrowy
sorry
sorry
sorry
sorryful
7-letter Words Starting With
s
so
sor
sorr
sorro
sorrow
Find Adjectives
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
Rhymes
Sentences
Nouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Plural
Singular
Past Tense
Present Tense
Word Unscrambler
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
iOS / Apple
Android
Home
About Us
Terms of Use
Privacy Statement
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Antonyms
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Copyright WordHippo © 2024