Words and phrases that have a meaning related to sorrowful: (135 results)
Antonyms:
joyful
Often used in the same context:
mournful, poignant, heartrending, melancholy, tragic, haunting, joyful, heartbreaking, somber, elegiac, solemn, sad, melancholic, doleful, plaintive, anguished, joyous, sombre, heartfelt, pained, prayerful, plangent, dolorous, horrifying, piteous, wistful, bittersweet, morose, regretful, poetic, rueful, grieved, tremulous, maudlin, brokenhearted, tearjerking, inexpressible, reproachful, desolating, redemptive, stoniest, tearful, ghastly, forlorn, distressing, quavery, funereal, shivah, uplifting, resonant, mawkish, melodramatic, disquieting, introspective, incantatory, beatific, horrific, saddening, heartwarming, weepy, pensive, harrowing, soulful, unquiet, depressing, contemplative, wrenching, grim, reverent, painful, heartbroken, baleful, cathartic, lugubrious, teary, cheerless, tragicomic, winsome, melodious, evocative, sullen, ennobling, benumbed, wordsworthian, heartsore, heartsick, sentimental, lachrymose, dispiriting, tragical, gruesome, eerie, eucharistic liturgy, grisly, callous, inspiriting, moonstruck, morbid, eloquent, dostoevskian, hallowing, unsettling, sadder, saddest, distressful, saddened, woeful, despondent, glad, anxious, remorseful
Appears in the definition of:
., bereaved, bereft, dolefully, grief-stricken, grieving, lugubriously, mourninga, sorrowfully, sorrowinga
Synonyms:
Also try:bitter, dolourous, grievous, lamentable, lamenting, mourning, sorrowing, tormented, tortured, wailful, wailing, weeping, woebegone
— Nouns for sorrowful: eyes, heart, face, look, expression, countenance, voice, tone, story, thoughts, hearts, more...
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