Synonyms of sorrowful

sorrowful

adjective

1

as in mournful

expressing or suggesting mourning

adopted a sorrowful tone of voice to read the news story about the former governor's death

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mournful
• weeping
• heartbroken
• funeral
• bitter
• grieving
• sad
• melancholy
• wailing
• anguished
• doleful
• tearful
• regretful
• unhappy
• lamentable
• aching
• dolorous
• sorry
• plaintive
• lugubrious
• agonized
• somber
• rueful
• depressed
• woeful
• crying
• plangent
• funereal
• dark
• morbid
• bleak
• bewailing
• elegiac
• deploring
• dolesome
• bemoaning
• pathetic
• downcast
• miserable
• dejected
• disconsolate
• dispirited
• heartsick
• inconsolable
• gloomy
• despondent
• moody
• desolate
• forlorn
• keening
• woebegone
• darkening
• glum
• crestfallen
• careworn
• sombre
• brokenhearted
• piteous
• bleeding
• morose
• elegiacal
• groaning
• downhearted
• cheerless
• suffering
• sullen
• moaning
• gray
• grey
• black
• pessimistic
• low-spirited
• wretched
• heartsore
• howling
• dismal
• joyless
• dirgelike
• comfortless
• dreary
• triste
• low
• saturnine
• bawling
• yammering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joyful
• happy
• triumphant
• cheerful
• delighted
• bright
• cheery
• smiling
• joyous
• laughing
• rejoicing
• merry
• exulting
• blissful
• jolly
• mirthful
• optimistic
• buoyant
• lighthearted
• hopeful
• blithe
• glorying
• encouraging
• cheering
• ecstatic
• rapturous
• euphoric
• jocund
• blithesome
• giddy
• rhapsodic
• heady
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

2

as in sad

feeling unhappiness

the cult seemed to be a sorrowful assemblage of emotionally scarred people seeking love and redemption

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sad
• unhappy
• heartbroken
• depressed
• miserable
• melancholy
• sorry
• bad
• mournful
• upset
• worried
• doleful
• melancholic
• uneasy
• disappointed
• gloomy
• downcast
• troubled
• hopeless
• dejected
• disconsolate
• forlorn
• woebegone
• inconsolable
• heartsick
• despondent
• joyless
• saddened
• glum
• crestfallen
• wretched
• woeful
• brokenhearted
• depressing
• distressed
• blue
• hangdog
• suicidal
• droopy
• heavyhearted
• low-spirited
• downhearted
• down
• heartsore
• tearful
• discouraged
• low
• despairing
• down in the mouth
• grieving
• aggrieved
• somber
• cast down
• weeping
• unquiet
• dispirited
• sunk
• regretful
• bleak
• dolorous
• plaintive
• anguished
• lugubrious
• desolate
• morbid
• disheartened
• sombre
• lachrymose
• rueful
• morose
• agonized
• elegiac
• cheerless
• wailing
• sullen
• dark
• grey
• dismal
• gray
• dreary
• comfortless
• funereal
• drear
• saturnine
• black
• darkening
• murky
• elegiacal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joyful
• joyous
• cheerful
• happy
• jubilant
• glad
• blissful
• cheery
• upbeat
• buoyant
• gleeful
• ecstatic
• exuberant
• sunny
• exultant
• merry
• rapturous
• euphoric
• delighted
• jovial
• buoyed
• jolly
• rhapsodic
• mirthful
• enraptured
• optimistic
• chipper
• hopeful
• jocular
• blithe
• excited
• jocund
• jocose
• rosy
• gladsome
• sanguine
• rhapsodical
• gladdened
• elated
• overjoyed
• spirited
• exhilarated
• energetic
• blithesome
• lively
• vital
• vivacious
• lightsome
• smiling
• content
• entranced
• satisfied
• animated
• perky
• sprightly
• laughing
• jaunty
• frisky
• encouraged
• peppy
• pleased
• springy
• bouncing
• careless
• thrilled
• gratified
• carefree
• lighthearted
• unconcerned
• zippy
• grinning
• easygoing
• cavalier
• heartened
• beaming
• insouciant
• boon
• sprightful
• happy-go-lucky
• devil-may-care