sorrowful
sor·row·ful
adjective
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
Origin
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
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