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词汇 sorrowful
释义 sorrowful
adjective
 literaryuk /ˈsɒr.əʊ.fəl/ us /ˈsɔːr.ə.fəl/
very sad: 悲伤的,哀伤的
With a sorrowful sigh she folded the letter and put it away.她悲伤地叹了口气,把信折好收了起来。
Synonyms
dejected
dolorousliterary
sad(NOT HAPPY)
Opposites
elated
joyful
jubilant
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

Related word


sorrowfully

Examples of sorrowful


sorrowful
The zeal of those near the king might aggravate such things and lead to a sorrowful parting.
The sound is sad yet harsh; sorrowful yet passionate.
A consequentialist who possesses a genuinely friendly character would abandon her friends with gentle tact and a loving, sorrowful explanation.
In this account, the sorrowful implications of the grave are a modern development.
For anyone interested in promoting and improving singing this is sorrowful reading.
The total effect is grand and sorrowful and very impressive.
The weary mind cannot resist fate, nor the sorrowful thought provide help.
Hopkins does not say, or imply, that his sorrowful existence, his experience of failures and inner emptiness, is only an illusion that must disappear after proper theodicean explanations.
As the little ship plays simply on the water, once the rage of its storms is quiet, so will you, my sorrowful heart, after having overcome pain, reach sweet peace.
It is always sorrowful for me to be in that state.
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After all, they are both taxes, and we should be sorrowful about both, not angry about one.
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In the past, for all sorts of sorrowful and other reasons, that has been the experience.
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We are all deeply sorrowful about what has happened.
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There is no doubt that employment opportunities, industrial production and social wellbeing have deteriorated to a sorrowful plight during the past 18 months.
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I have never seen such a sorrowful spectacle in my life.
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