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Synonyms & Antonyms of sorrowfulness
a state or spell of low spirits
- with a sorrowfulness that can only be described as heart-wrenching, she read the elegy
Synonyms for sorrowfulness
- blue devils,
- blues,
- dejection,
- depression,
- desolation,
- despond,
- despondence,
- despondency,
- disconsolateness,
- dispiritedness,
- doldrums,
- dolefulness,
- downheartedness,
- dreariness,
- dumps,
- forlornness,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- glumness,
- heartsickness,
- joylessness,
- melancholy,
- miserableness,
- mopes,
- mournfulness,
- oppression,
- sadness,
- unhappiness
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