Synonyms for sorrow
ˈsɒr oʊ, ˈsɔr oʊsor·row

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1. sorrow

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

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   Synonyms:
   affliction, distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

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1. sorrow

   Synonyms:
   affliction, grief, sadness, trouble, regret, distress, mental pain, ruth, mourning

   Antonyms:
   joy, gladness, rejoicing

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1. sorrownoun

   an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

   "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"

   Synonyms:
   regret, ruefulness, rue, sadness, grief, sorrowfulness

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joyfulness, joy

2. sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulnessnoun

   sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

   "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"

   Synonyms:
   regret, ruefulness, grief, rue, sorrowfulness, herb of grace, sadness

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joyfulness, joy

3. grief, sorrownoun

   something that causes great unhappiness

   "her death was a great grief to John"

   Synonyms:
   regret, sadness, ruefulness, brokenheartedness, heartache, sorrowfulness, heartbreak, rue, grief

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joy, joyfulness

4. sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessverb

   the state of being sad

   "she tired of his perpetual sadness"

   Synonyms:
   regret, unhappiness, sadness, ruefulness, grief, gloominess, mournfulness, lugubriousness, sorrowfulness, rue, ruthfulness

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joy, joyfulness

5. grieve, sorrowverb

   feel grief

   Synonyms:
   grieve, aggrieve

   Antonyms:
   joyfulness, joyousness, joy

Matched Categories

1. • Sadness
   • Suffer

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1. sorrownoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, sadness, affliction, mourning, trouble

2. sorrownoun

   Synonyms:
   regret, vexation, chagrin

3. sorrowverb

   Synonyms:
   grieve, mourn, be sad

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1. sorrownoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue, unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavement

2. sorrowverb

   Synonyms:
   grieve, mourn, regret, deplore, bewail, lament

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1. List of paraphrases for "sorrow":

   sadness, grief, pain, spite, regret, heartache, mourning, woe, contrition, anguish, affliction, distress, penalty

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1. Tamim Yousef:

   When coronavirus arrived in Yemen, it came around the end of the month of Ramadan ... since then, we've kept on digging and digging. We can't keep up, you feel the worst pain with the children, when you have to bury a child. You feel sorrow, sadness. My thoughts go out to the parents.

2. Najma Mohammad:

   I used to feed my children when I went out for work, but now there is only sorrow and no work.

3. Mark Twain:

   The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

4. Fire Marshal Doug Wilhelm:

   The area of origin was a Christmas tree, so we're not sure if it's because of electric or a dried up old Christmas Day tree, it is with unbearable sorrow that we share with you this Christmas morning the tragic news that the King family, in a house fire early today, lost their father [ Eric ] and two Richland Elementary School students.

5. August Strindberg:

   Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.