Thesaurus
sorrow
Synonyms and Antonyms of sorrow
- the soldier's widow continued to sorrow long after her husband's last letter had turned yellow with age
sorrow
Synonyms and Antonyms of sorrow
- he felt great sorrow at the loss of his beloved dog
agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness
contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame
Synonym Discussion of sorrow
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- a family united in sorrow upon the patriarch's death
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- the inexpressible grief of the bereaved parents
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- the anguish felt by the parents of the kidnapped child
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- cries of woe echoed throughout the bombed city
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- nagging regret for missed opportunities
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