sorrows
What loss brings
Sorrows is the plural of sorrow—deep distresses or causes of grief.
The word appears in expressions like drowning one's sorrows, meaning to drink alcohol to forget troubles.
The joys and sorrows of parenthood pairs it with its opposite.
Someone who borrows sorrow worries about troubles that haven't yet arrived.
State of emotional pain
- pensivenessReflective, slightly sad mood
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
gloominess · mournfulness · heavy-hearted · doleful · plaintive · elegiac · bittersweet · weltschmerz
Intense mental suffering
- hopelessnessState without hope
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- wretchednessExtreme unhappiness or distress
torment · suffering · agony · woe · dejection · despondency · bleakness · gloom
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- condolencesExpressions of grief support
funeral · wake · shiva · eulogy · obituary · remembrance · grieving · inconsolable
Severe difficulty or suffering
- tribulationState of great distress
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
- travailArduous, painful exertion
misfortune · troubles · trials · burdens · suffering · struggle · privation · deprivation
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- penitenceRemorse for misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
shame · self-reproach · ruefulness · compunction · pangs · atonement · amends · confession
Overwhelmed with grief
- brokenheartedOverwhelmed with grief
- lovelornUnhappy due to unreturned affection
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
longing · lovesick · unrequited · jilted · forlorn · despondent · anguished · wistful
sadness
State of emotional pain
- pensivenessReflective, slightly sad mood
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- broodingAnxiously dwelling on something
somberness · gloominess · mournfulness · heavy-hearted · doleful · plaintive · elegiac · bittersweet · weltschmerz · blue
anguish
Intense mental suffering
- hopelessnessState without hope
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
wretchedness · torment · suffering · agony · woe · dejection · despondency · bleakness · gloom · darkness
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
condolences · funeral · wake · shiva · eulogy · obituary · remembrance · grieving · inconsolable · tears
adversity
Severe difficulty or suffering
- tribulationState of great distress
- afflictionCause of ongoing distress
- ordealDifficult, painful experience
travail · misfortune · troubles · trials · burdens · suffering · struggle · privation · deprivation · woes
remorse
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- penitenceRemorse for misdeeds
repentance · shame · self-reproach · ruefulness · compunction · pangs · atonement · amends · confession · mea culpa
heartbroken
Overwhelmed with grief
- brokenheartedOverwhelmed with grief
- lovelornUnhappy due to unreturned affection
- piningAching with prolonged desire
yearning · longing · lovesick · unrequited · jilted · forlorn · despondent · anguished · wistful · loneliness
- life storyautobiography, memoir, early years, childhood, memories
- Marian devotionVirgin Mary, rosary beads, Our Lady, Mother of God, Madonna
- inner lifeidentity, feelings, memory, thoughts, self-discovery
- outcriescries, screams, shouts, yells, howls
- 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, sorrowing, sorrowfully, sorrowed, sorrowfulness