sorrowful

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There is the class of feelings that we call the sorrowful, there is another class of feelings that we call pleasurable, and there is still another class which is neither sorrowful nor pleasurable, but is one of ignorance, depression (_vi@sвda_) or dullness.

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  1. adjective Affected with, marked by, causing, or expressing sorrow. See Synonyms at sad.

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  • He looks very sorrowful--a deal sorrowfuller nor you--and what is that He has on His Head That has to do with a very sad story, which I have not told you yet. —  Wikkey A Scrap
  • At last he got very tired and sorrowful, and sat down by the wayside and wept, thinking he would rather turn to marble at once, than live by such a horrible remedy. —  Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
  • Paul." This duet is followed by a sorrowful, almost wailing tenor solo, "The Sorrows of Death had closed all around me," ending with the piercing, anxious cry in recitative, "Watchman! —  The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
  • I would not have the parting make her sorrowful--or not, at least, too unalterably sorrowful. —  Chivalry
  • Immediately afterwards he rose up and left the room Sybilla grew pale, sorrowful, and then melted into tears. —  Olive A Novel
 

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mournful ·  sad ·  wistful ·  tragic ·  tearful ·  joyful ·  pitiful ·  gloomy ·  anxious ·  unhappy ·  dejected ·  somber
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  1. from Middle English sorowful, sorweful, soruful, sorful, seoruhful, sorhful, from Anglo-Saxon sorgful, sorhful (= Old High German sorgfol sworgfol, sworcfol = Icelandic sorgfullr = Swedish sorgfull = Danish sorgfuld), from sorh, sorrow, + ful, full: see sorrow and -ful.
 

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/ˈsɑrəfəl/
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