Synonyms: sorrowful
Definition: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Usage: sorrowful widows; a sorrowful tale of death and despair; sorrowful news; even in laughter the heart is sorrowful- Proverbs 14:13
Similar words: tormented, tortured, anguished
Definition: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain
Usage: an anguished conscience; a small tormented schoolboy; a tortured witness to another's humiliation
Similar words: bereaved, bereft, sorrowing, mourning, grief-stricken, grieving
Definition: sorrowful through loss or deprivation
Usage: bereft of hope
Similar words: bitter
Definition: expressive of severe grief or regret
Usage: shed bitter tears
Similar words: heartbroken, heartsick, brokenhearted
Definition: full of sorrow
Similar words: lachrymose, weeping, tearful, dolorous, dolourous
Definition: showing sorrow
Similar words: elegiac
Definition: expressing sorrow often for something past
Usage: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals
Similar words: heartbreaking, heartrending, grievous
Definition: causing or marked by grief or anguish
Usage: a grievous loss; a grievous cry; her sigh was heartbreaking; the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter
Similar words: lamenting, wailful, wailing
Definition: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
Usage: lamenting sinners; wailing mourners; the wailing wind; wailful bagpipes; tangle her desires with wailful sonnets- Shakespeare
Similar words: lugubrious
Definition: excessively mournful
Similar words: plaintive, mournful
Definition: expressing sorrow
Similar words: sad
Definition: of things that make you feel sad
Usage: sad news; she doesn't like sad movies; it was a very sad story; When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me- Christina Rossetti
Similar words: woebegone, woeful
Definition: affected by or full of grief or woe
Usage: his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone- George du Maurier