sorrow

sorrow
n
1. grief, sadness, Archaic. dole, woe, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; misery, Archaic. bale, dolor, anguish; ache, hurt, pain, suffering; torture, torment, agony; bereavement, mourning; woefulness, wretchedness, heaviness of heart, desolation, dejection, depression, oppression; disconsolateness, unhap-piness, infelicity.
2. repentance, contrition, penitence, regret, rue, remorse, compunction.
3. distress, affliction, grievance, trouble, worry, vexation; plight, strait, predicament, sea of troubles, difficulty, rub; burden, load, albatross, cross, onus, crown of thorns, bitter pill, millstone around one's neck; cares, pressure, stress, strain; trial, travail, tribulation, curse, ordeal, infliction.
4. misfortune, adversity, mischance, reverse; hindrance, handicap, impediment; hard luck, ill luck, bad luck, bad fortune, hard times, evil days; hardship, privation, austerity, pinch, extremity; disaster, calamity, catastrophe, evil; blight, cancer, canker, scourge, pestilence.
5. lament, lamentation, jeremiad, cry, wail, weep, ululation, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; keen, threnody, dirge, (in Scotland and Ireland) coronach.
v
6. grieve, mourn, pine, weep; bewail, bemoan, lament; despond, despair, lose heart, droop, languish, sink.
7. rue, regret, repine, deplore; take to heart, lay to heart.

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  • Sorrow — Sor row, n. [OE. sorwe, sorewe, sor?e, AS. sorg, sorh; akin to D. zorg care, anxiety, OS. sorga, OHG. sorga, soraga, suorga, G. sorge, Icel., Sw., & Dan. sorg, Goth. sa[ u]rga; of unknown origin.] The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Sorrow — Sor row, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sorrowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sorrowing}.] [OE. sorowen, sorwen, sorhen, AS. sorgian; akin to Goth. sa[ u]rgan. See {Sorrow}, n.] To feel pain of mind in consequence of evil experienced, feared, or done; to grieve; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • sorrow — [sär′ō, sôr′ō] n. [ME sorwe < OE sorg, akin to Ger sorge < IE base * swergh , to worry, be ill > Sans sūrkṣati, he worries about, Lith sergù, to be sick] 1. mental suffering caused by loss, disappointment, etc.; sadness, grief, or regret …   English World dictionary

  • Sorrow — Chanson par Pink Floyd extrait de l’album A Momentary Lapse of Reason Pays  Royaume Uni …   Wikipédia en Français

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  • sorrow — index distress (anguish), pain, plaint, remorse, tragedy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • sorrow — (n.) O.E. sorg grief, regret, trouble, care, from P.Gmc. *surgo (Cf. O.S. sorga, O.N. sorg, M.Du. sorghe, Du. zorg, O.H.G. soraga, Ger. sorge, Goth. saurga), perhaps from PIE *swergh (Cf. Skt. surksati cares for, Lith …   Etymology dictionary

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