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Pronunciation:
[ sˈɒɹə͡ʊ], [ sˈɒɹəʊ], [ s_ˈɒ_ɹ_əʊ]
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Similar words for sorrow:
- other relevant words (adjective)
- aching heart (noun)
- adversity (noun)
- affliction (noun)
- burden (noun)
- care (noun)
- compassion (noun)
- contrition (noun)
- depression (noun)
- despair (noun)
- desperation (noun)
- distress (noun)
- emotion (noun)
- evil (noun)
- extreme upset, grief (noun)
- feeling (noun)
- feelings (noun)
- gloom (noun)
- grievance (noun)
- hardship (noun)
- heartbreak (noun)
- hopelessness (noun)
- lament/lamentation (noun)
- lamentation (noun)
- melancholy (noun)
- misery (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- penance (noun)
- pity (noun)
- regret (noun)
- remorse (noun)
- repentance (noun)
- sadness (noun)
- tear/tears (noun)
- trial (noun)
- tribulation (noun)
- trouble (noun)
- unhappiness (noun)
- unrest (noun)
- woe (noun)
- be very upset, grieved (verb)
- cry (verb)
- grieve (verb)
- lament (verb)
- languish (verb)
- mourn (verb)
- repent (verb)
- sigh (verb)
- other synonyms
- cry
- lament
- languish
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Sorrow:
adj.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)n.
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- misfortune,
- difficulty,
- get down,
- pine,
- sink,
- ache,
- feel sorry for someone,
- catastrophe,
- upset yourself.
- thorn in ones side,
- excess baggages,
- thorn one side,
- thorn in one side,
- ball chain,
- thorn side,
- thorn one's side,
- weary loads,
- herculean tasks,
- thorn ones side.
- un-easinesses,
- dis-quiet,
- fore bodings,
- dis mays,
- un easiness,
- fore boding,
- dis-composure,
- un-easiness,
- fore-bodings,
- dis-composures,
- fretfulnesses,
- dis may,
- fore-boding,
- dis-may,
- dis composure,
- dis quiets,
- mis-giving,
- mis giving,
- dis-quiets,
- dis quiet,
- un easinesses,
- dis composures,
- dis-mays.
- lugubriosity,
- woefulness,
- abjection,
- lowness,
- dispiritedness,
- heavyheartedness,
- Disconsolation,
- dreariness,
- blahs,
- melancholia,
- the blues,
- heaviness of heart,
- the blue,
- Abjectness,
- unhappiness,
- Melancholias,
- cheerlessness,
- gloominess,
- bleakness.
- dis-comfort,
- dis traction,
- dis tractions,
- dis-comforts,
- dis-traction,
- dis comfort,
- disconsolatenesses,
- dis comforts,
- dis-tractions.
- dis quietudes,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tresses,
- unconsolabilities,
- dis-quietude,
- dis-appointment,
- dis appointment,
- dis-appointments,
- dis-quietudes,
- dis tresses,
- head-ache,
- worriments,
- dis tress,
- dis quietude,
- dis appointments.
- diabolisms,
- criminality,
- sinfulness,
- Knaveries,
- infamy,
- obscenity,
- criminalities,
- diabolism,
- looseness,
- knavery,
- vileness,
- Peccancy.
- bad news,
- mourning,
- suffering,
- worry,
- rain,
- lamenting,
- big trouble,
- blow,
- heartache,
- wretchedness,
- grieving.
- calvary,
- hopelessness,
- stew,
- anguish,
- burden,
- hardship,
- plaints,
- hard knock,
- rue,
- excess baggage,
- vicissitude,
- evil,
- misery,
- regret,
- stink,
- penury,
- anhedonia,
- forlornness,
- lamentation,
- repentance,
- deadweight,
- head ache,
- infelicity,
- depression,
- anvil chorus,
- weary load,
- softheartedness,
- headache,
- keening,
- threnody,
- care,
- gloom,
- infirmity,
- purgatory,
- trial,
- tenderheartedness,
- distress,
- flack,
- hooha,
- jeremiad,
- catatonia,
- sordidness,
- encumbrance,
- bereavement,
- the dumps,
- Infelicities,
- heaviness,
- hard time,
- visitation,
- woe,
- disconsolateness,
- sorriness,
- trouble,
- penance,
- thorn in one's side,
- adversity,
- self-flagellation,
- shrift,
- lenity,
- expiation,
- penalty,
- hang up,
- heartbreak,
- grief,
- morbidity,
- sadness,
- fretfulness,
- low spirits,
- dolefuls,
- ruth,
- affliction,
- Morbidities,
- waterworks,
- dashed hope,
- disheartenments,
- hangup,
- worriment,
- flacks,
- self-reproach,
- Downcastness,
- pessimism,
- wailing,
- tribulation,
- empathy,
- dolor,
- severe test,
- unrest,
- deadweights,
- Cryings,
- moodiness,
- mournfulness,
- uphill battle,
- wistfulness,
- unconsolability,
- keenings,
- down trip,
- disheartenment,
- big stink,
- humanities,
- saturninity,
- melancholy,
- remorse,
- cross to bear,
- sob act,
- dismals,
- despair,
- pity,
- humaneness,
- teardrop,
- sorrowfulness,
- thorn in side,
- dashed hopes,
- Miserableness,
- tough break,
- aching heart,
- rotten luck,
- pensiveness,
- pangs of conscience,
- trying time,
- moanings,
- shrifts,
- compassion,
- plaint,
- desolation,
- dejection,
- ululation,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- weepings,
- grievance,
- in justice,
- lachryma,
- dolefulness,
- injustice,
- millstone,
- teardrops.
- self flagellation,
- sackcloth ash,
- sackcloth ashes,
- self flagellations,
- selfflagellation,
- expiations,
- self-flagellations,
- sackcloth and ash,
- selfflagellations.
v.
• be very upset, grieved (verb) • cry (verb)- dissolves in tears,
- puts on weeps,
- putting on the weeps,
- be wail,
- turn waterworks,
- rang blues,
- be-moans,
- letting all out,
- bursting in to tears,
- turned on waterworks,
- turned waterworks,
- broke down,
- rings the blues,
- bursting into tears,
- dissolving in tears,
- brake down,
- putting weeps,
- put the weeps,
- bursts in to tears,
- be moans,
- dissolve tears,
- boohoos,
- putting the weeps,
- puts weeps,
- be-wailed,
- puts on the weeps,
- ring blues,
- dissolves tears,
- ringed the blues,
- breaks down,
- putting on weeps,
- puts the weeps,
- be-wail,
- be wails,
- burst in to tears,
- letted out,
- rings blues,
- ringing blues,
- rang the blues,
- letted go,
- turns on waterworks,
- turns waterworks,
- shedding bitter tears,
- bursted in to tears,
- lets it out,
- dissolved tears,
- lets all out,
- lets out,
- be-wails,
- letted it out,
- ringed blues,
- bursted into tears,
- turning on waterworks,
- be moaned,
- be-moan,
- be moan,
- turning waterworks,
- put on weeps,
- lets it all out,
- bursts into tears,
- letting it out,
- be wailed,
- put weeps,
- letting it all out,
- ringing the blues,
- be-moaned,
- letted all out,
- letted it all out,
- sheds bitter tears,
- dissolving tears,
- let all out.
- taking it hard,
- cried a river,
- eating one's heart out,
- hung crepe,
- cried river,
- eating ones heart out,
- eats heart out,
- ate one heart out,
- cry river,
- eats one heart out,
- sings blues,
- eat ones heart out,
- ate one's heart out,
- sang blues,
- hangs crepe,
- cries a river,
- hanged crepe,
- eat one heart out,
- singing blues,
- takes it hard,
- sing blues,
- sings the blues,
- hanging crepe,
- sung the blues,
- eating heart out,
- ate ones heart out,
- took it hard,
- crying river,
- eats one's heart out,
- eating one heart out,
- sung blues,
- takes hard,
- sang the blues,
- crying a river,
- eats ones heart out,
- ate heart out,
- took hard,
- take hard,
- taking hard,
- cries river.
- re-pines,
- kicking self,
- beat breast,
- beating one breast,
- beating ones breast,
- beats ones breast,
- beats one breast,
- beat ones breast,
- re-pined,
- beats one's breast,
- beating one's breast,
- re-pine,
- beats breast,
- re pine,
- re pines,
- kicked self,
- beat one breast,
- beating breast,
- kicks self,
- re pined.
- were disregarded,
- fizzles out,
- goes soft,
- dieing on vine,
- was neglected,
- fizzled out,
- being neglected,
- were neglected,
- dying vine,
- am disregarded,
- conks out,
- died on vine,
- being disregarded,
- de-siring,
- went soft,
- dying on vine,
- de sired,
- wast neglected,
- am neglected,
- wert disregarded,
- was disregarded,
- going soft,
- fags out,
- dies vine,
- wert neglected,
- de-clines,
- dieing vine,
- de clines,
- is neglected,
- is disregarded,
- de siring,
- dies on vine,
- on vine,
- de-cline,
- art neglected,
- go pieces,
- fizzling out,
- conking out,
- wastes away,
- de cline,
- died vine,
- are disregarded,
- die vine,
- de-sired,
- wast disregarded,
- fagging out.
- wringing hands,
- are sad,
- were brokenhearted,
- is sad,
- wore black,
- art sad,
- was brokenhearted,
- were sad,
- longed for,
- is brokenhearted,
- am brokenhearted,
- was sad,
- wearing black,
- wast sad,
- wears black,
- wast brokenhearted,
- wrings hands,
- wert sad,
- art brokenhearted,
- are brokenhearted,
- wrung hands,
- am sad,
- being brokenhearted,
- being sad,
- wert brokenhearted.
- reproached oneself,
- shows penitence,
- had qualms,
- haddest qualms,
- is sorry,
- seeing error of ways,
- saw error of ways,
- re forms,
- hath qualms,
- are contrite,
- feeling remorse,
- sees error of ways,
- was contrite,
- seeing error ways,
- re-forms,
- hast qualms,
- wert contrite,
- wert ashamed,
- wast contrite,
- am ashamed,
- hadst qualms,
- re formed,
- art sorry,
- being contrite,
- wert sorry,
- reproaches oneself,
- Re-forming,
- has qualms,
- saw error ways,
- art contrite,
- were ashamed,
- showed penitence,
- were sorry,
- is ashamed,
- are ashamed,
- see error ways,
- sees error ways,
- reproaching oneself,
- is contrite,
- am sorry,
- wast ashamed,
- re form,
- re forming,
- showing penitence,
- was sorry,
- being sorry,
- was ashamed,
- wast sorry,
- being ashamed,
- were contrite,
- art ashamed,
- are sorry,
- having qualms,
- am contrite.
Other synonyms:
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- slough,
- blues,
- disenchantment,
- dissatisfaction,
- death wish,
- discouragement,
- wrench,
- darkness,
- discontent,
- disappointment,
- disillusionment,
- self-pity.
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- suffer.
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- void.
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- smart.
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- moan.
- break down,
- Boohoo,
- let go,
- lets go,
- put on the weeps,
- shed tears,
- Mewling,
- sheds tears,
- Regretted,
- shedding tears,
- mewls,
- letting out,
- keens,
- mewl,
- keened,
- let it out,
- let it all out,
- blubbing,
- Boohooed,
- turn on waterworks,
- Squalled,
- Boohooing,
- blubs,
- burst into tears,
- squalling,
- shed bitter tears,
- letting go,
- breaking down,
- let out,
- whine,
- Mewled,
- blub,
- Moaned,
- ring the blues,
- blubbed,
- dissolve in tears,
- dissolved in tears.
- yearn,
- waste away,
- wasted away,
- fizzle out,
- wasting away,
- die on vine,
- be disregarded,
- tuckers,
- tucker,
- be neglected,
- Fagging,
- fagged out,
- go soft,
- FAGS,
- fag out,
- conked out,
- Hungered,
- Hungering,
- tuckering,
- fag,
- conk out,
- fagged.
- cry,
- wring hands,
- grieve,
- long for,
- see error of ways,
- cry a river,
- Suspired,
- take it hard,
- suspiring,
- singing the blues,
- reproach oneself,
- longs for,
- be ashamed,
- mourn,
- be sad,
- have qualms,
- hang crepe,
- eat one's heart out,
- sigh,
- wear black,
- be sorry,
- suspire,
- feel remorse,
- be brokenhearted,
- re-formed,
- sing the blues,
- longing for,
- be contrite,
- languish,
- repent,
- Rued,
- anguished,
- suspires,
- show penitence,
- eat heart out,
- feels remorse,
- felt remorse.
- make unhappy,
- bitterly,
- calamity,
- compunction,
- travail,
- lamentable,
- disconsolate,
- downcast,
- hard luck,
- herb of grace,
- snivel,
- Desolateness,
- pessimist,
- inundate,
- sad,
- injure,
- sadden,
- vapours,
- agonise,
- cares,
- earnestly,
- disaster,
- regrettably,
- regrets,
- feel for,
- poignant,
- be stricken by,
- Bemoaning,
- inquietude,
- downheartedness,
- Wo,
- weep over,
- pang,
- condole with,
- in cold blood,
- ululate,
- discomfort,
- be all over,
- shamefastness,
- damage,
- defeatism,
- prostrate,
- torment,
- cruelly,
- depress,
- tenderness,
- repining,
- vigorously,
- attrition,
- disquiet,
- glumness,
- decline,
- prostration,
- dumps,
- sharply,
- dole,
- brokenheartedness,
- sourly,
- disgruntlement,
- soreness,
- load,
- shamefacedness,
- oppression,
- pine away,
- pitying,
- bitter draught,
- weight,
- painful,
- chastisement,
- downhearted,
- comfortless,
- dolorous,
- cross,
- sympathy,
- failure,
- enthusiastically,
- hypochondria,
- chastening,
- annoy,
- ayenbite of inwit,
- despondent,
- second thoughts,
- cut up,
- piercingly,
- woeful,
- brood over,
- ruin,
- dishearten,
- inconvenience,
- heartily,
- ruefulness,
- howling,
- burden of care,
- chagrin,
- anxiety,
- bitter cup,
- bitterness,
- rueful,
- knell,
- dispirit,
- scorn,
- humiliation,
- pathos,
- annoyance,
- already,
- angst,
- bleeding heart,
- complain,
- passion,
- remorsefulness,
- bitter draft,
- pining,
- clouded,
- despondency,
- gloomy,
- guilty conscience,
- pule,
- croaker,
- cheerless,
- harshly,
- unhappy,
- regretfulness,
- sorrowful,
- bleed,
- gall,
- curse,
- infliction,
- poignantly,
- bitingly,
- mournful,
- aversion,
- strongly,
- ill,
- depressed,
- ruthfulness,
- heart-burning,
- fall,
- mope,
- down,
- guilt,
- dark,
- commiseration,
- crestfallen,
- crush,
- miserable,
- unhappily,
- come to grief,
- bring to tears,
- dejected,
- self-condemnation,
- sorrowing,
- harm,
- fiercely,
- aggrieve,
- wail,
- moaning,
- afflict,
- decay,
- vexation,
- distressed,
- teen,
- saddening,
- happen to,
- strain,
- dismay,
- carking care,
- joylessness,
- despondence,
- bad conscience,
- condolence,
- anxiousness,
- concern,
- apology,
- doldrums,
- worried,
- go downhill,
- mischief,
- hypochondriac,
- weariness,
- calamitous,
- warmly,
- Languishment,
- deject,
- suffer from,
- cankerworm of care,
- doleful,
- bitter pill,
- bad luck,
- waters of bitterness,
- worry about,
- pressure,
- shamefulness,
- embitter,
- dolour,
- Apologies,
- Bewailing,
- unfortunately,
- dislike,
- Self-tormentor,
- With,
- dirge,
- mortification,
- conscience,
- injury,
- console,
- depressing,
- woefully,
- wound,
- overwhelm,
- unluckily,
- lugubriousness,
- dejectedness,
- desolate,
- cataclysm,
- anger,
- bawl,
- destruction,
- crown of thorns,
- caustically,
- torture,
- discourage,
- Regretting,
- Fash,
- Heartgrief,
- weep for,
- dreary,
- cordially,
- elegize,
- afflicted,
- fret,
- dusky,
- wretchedly,
- embarrassment,
- moroseness,
- keen,
- thorn,
- Mopus,
- dispirited,
- commiserate,
- sincerely,
- oppress,
- glum,
- tragedy.
Paraphrases for Sorrow:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
sadness.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
emotion.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
affliction, agony, compassion, pity, sentence, spite, trouble, weeping.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
anguish, bereavement, bitterness, chagrin, concern, condolence, consternation, disappointment, dismay, displeasure, distress, gloom, grieving, heartache, heartbreak, misery, mourning, penalty, punishment, remorse, repentance, soreness, suffering, sympathy, tragedy, unhappiness, woe.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Sorrow:
- seer, sahara, scissure, sixer, sower, sherry, shore, shirer, shire, succory, sukur, screw, sharer, skier, swearer, scarey, scorer, scarer, shear, successor, saussure, succourer, showery, sirrah, succor, soccer, sakkara, sorry, succour, Sarro, screwy, scour, shareware, sahuaro, scurry, sharia, sr., syria, sear, securer, seizure, squawker, scissor, secure, saury, sciara, sewer, serow, sugary, sauria, surya, scary, sour, shari, seizer, soar, squeezer, sucker, sari, serra, suer, sokoro, sur, squire, swagger, seashore, serer, scare away, surrey, souari, squeaker, score, saguaro, swayer, saussurea, swaggerer, sugar, sore, shaker, seeker, sura, sere, soaker, saucer, saqqara, ssri, scourer, swear, screw eye, share, square, scare, saree, Sauce Chausseur, sea hare, shower, sierra, succorer, shariah, scree, shocker, sucre, sir, soiree, sorrower, shearer, sheer, sr, shirr, shrew, shorea, square away, seeger, sure, sea-ear, SACEUR, scouser, scoria, sawyer, saqqarah, skewer, scar, sarah, sire, Scry.
Hypernym for Sorrow:
n.
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feeling
mournfulness, heartache, heartbreak, ruthfulness, self-pity, brokenheartedness, broken heart, grief, sorrowfulness.
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feeling
Hyponym for Sorrow:
n.
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feeling
unhappiness, sadness.
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feeling
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