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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sorrowful \Sor"row*ful\, a. [OE. sorweful, AS. sorgful.]
     1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected;
        distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." --Chaucer.
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              My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.


                                                    --Matt. xxvi.
                                                    38.
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     2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable;
        grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.
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     Syn: Sad; mournful; dismal; disconsolate; drear; dreary;
          grievous; lamentable; doleful; distressing.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Sor"row*ful*ly}, adv. --
          {Sor"row*ful*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sorrowful
       adj : 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 [ant: {joyful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "sorrowful":
     Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished,
     bitter, bleak, blue, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, complaining,
     crestfallen, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing,
     depressive, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal,
     dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful,
     dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast, dreary,
     dumb with grief, faultfinding, fretful, gloomy, grief-stricken,
     griefful, grieved, grievous, hapless, heartsick, howling, in grief,
     in the doldrums, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive,
     lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moanful, mournful, moving,
     painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous, pitiable, plaintive,
     plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, puling, querulous, regretful,
     regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore,
     sorrow-laden, sorrow-stricken, sorrowed, sorrowing, sorry, tearful,
     touching, troublous, ululant, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unhappy,
     unlucky, wailful, whimpering, whining, whiny, woebegone, woeful,
     wretched
  
  

















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