sorrowed
Mourned a loss
Sorrowed is the past tense of sorrow, meaning to feel or express deep sadness or grief.
The verb is literary and seldom used in everyday speech: She sorrowed over the loss of her child.
Where modern English would say someone grieved or mourned, older texts might say they sorrowed.
Deprived by death
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
weeping · sobbing · tears · condolence · elegy · dirge · keening · wailing
Severe prolonged suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
agony · pain · distress · affliction · wretchedness · desolate · forlorn · agonized
Sadly longing for something
- pensiveQuietly, sadly thoughtful
- somberGravely serious in mood
- dolefulExpressing deep sorrow
- plaintiveSounding sad, sorrowful
lugubrious · mournful · dejected · downcast · crestfallen · glum · morose · brooding
Aching with prolonged desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- heartsickProfoundly sad, grieving
- lovelornUnhappy due to unreturned affection
- lonelinessState of lacking companions
aching · nostalgic · bittersweet · lonesome · wistful · homesick · lovesick · languishing
Feeling guilt for wrongdoing
- penitentOne showing remorse
- contriteFeeling guilt over misdeeds
- repentantFeeling sorrow for misdeeds
- apologeticExpressing regret for wrongdoing
guilty · ashamed · rue · compunction · self-reproach · atonement · repentance · penance
bereaved
Deprived by death
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- bereavementState following loss
loss · weeping · sobbing · tears · condolence · elegy · dirge · keening · wailing · eulogy
torment
Severe prolonged suffering
misery · agony · pain · distress · affliction · wretchedness · desolate · forlorn · agonized · pained
wistful
Sadly longing for something
plaintive · lugubrious · mournful · dejected · downcast · crestfallen · glum · morose · brooding · despondent
pining
Aching with prolonged desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- heartsickProfoundly sad, grieving
- lovelornUnhappy due to unreturned affection
loneliness · aching · nostalgic · bittersweet · lonesome · wistful · homesick · lovesick · languishing · forsaken
remorseful
Feeling guilt for wrongdoing
apologetic · guilty · ashamed · rue · compunction · self-reproach · atonement · repentance · penance · contrition
- drown one's sorrowsConsume alcohol to escape sadness
- joy and sorrowPositive and negative feelings
- sweet sorrowPain that carries affection
- in sorrow
- man of sorrows
- eternal sorrowUnending profound sadness
sorrow, sorrowful, sorrows, sorrowing, sorrowfully, sorrowfulness