sorrowfulness
41sadness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sorrow, dejection, melancholy, depression, grief, despondency, sorrowfulness, oppression, downs*, gloom*, blues*, dumps*. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. downheartedness, sorrow, depression, melancholy, misery, unhappiness …
42joylessness — n. lack of happiness, sadness, sorrowfulness, bleakness, cheerlessness …
43regretfulness — rɪ gretfÊŠlnɪs n. sorrowfulness, remorsefulness, state of feeling anguished …
44remorsefulness — rɪ mÉ”rsfÊŠlnɪs / mÉ”Ës n. regretfulness, sorrowfulness, state of having feelings of guilt …
45sorrow — noun a feeling of deep distress caused by loss or disappointment. ↘a cause of sorrow. ↘the outward expression of grief. verb feel sorrow. Derivatives sorrowful adjective sorrowfully adverb sorrowfulness noun Origin OE sorh, sorg (n.), sorgian… …
46sadness — n. 1. Sorrow, despondency, sorrowfulness, mournfulness, melancholy, depression, dejection. 2. Gloominess, mournfulness, heaviness, grief, sorrow, dolefulness. 3. Seriousness, sedateness, gravity …
47sorrowful — adjective literary very sad: an old woman with a sorrowful expression sorrowfully adverb sorrowfulness noun (U) …
48penitence — noun the writer prays to God in penitence Syn: repentance, contrition, regret, remorse, remorsefulness, ruefulness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, pangs of conscience, self reproach, shame, guilt, compunction; archaic rue …
49dejection — n disheartenment, dispiritedness, low spiritedness, downheartedness, low spirits, downcastness; discouragement, disappointment, crestfallenness, broken heartedness, heartsickness; unhappiness, cheerlessness, glumness, gloominess, dolefulness,… …
50guilt — n 1. guiltiness, culpability, Latin, culpa. criminality; illegality, illicitness, illegitimacy, il legitimateness, lawlessness, unlawfulness; reprehen sibility, blame, blameworthiness, censurability, cen surableness, reproachableness;… …
