sorrowful
Meaning
Adjective
- (of a person) exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught.
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
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Origin
- From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful, from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz, equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol, Norwegian sorgfull, Icelandic sorgfullur.
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