sorrowfulness
51moroseness — n sullenness, saturnineness, saturnity, morosity, somberness, soberness, austerity, severity, acerbity, taciturnity, silence; glumness, gloominess, grumness, grimness, bleakness, darkness, black looks; lugubriousness, atrabiliousness, morbidity,… …
52penitence — n contrition, Theol. imperfect contrition, attrition, repentance, acknowledgment; compunction, regret, regretfulness, regrets, remorse, re morsefulness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sadness, grief, sorriness; sackcloth and ashes, breast beating; self… …
53pungency — n 1. acridity, sting, acrid taste or smell; sourness, tang, tartness, bitterness, nip, acidity, vinegar; savoriness, spiciness, flavorfulness, pepperiness, saltiness. 2. poignance, pathos, touchingness, patheticalness, piteousness;… …
54sadness — n 1. unhappiness, joylessness, cheerlessness, uncheerfulness; discouragement, disheartenment, downheartedness; dolefulness, grievousness, plaintiveness; gloominess, bleakness; sorrowfulness, wretchedness, miserableness, woefulness. 2. dejection,… …
55sorrowful — /ˈsɒrəfəl/ (say soruhfuhl) adjective 1. full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad. 2. indicative or expressive of sorrow; mournful; plaintive. 3. involving or causing sorrow; distressing. –sorrowfully, adverb –sorrowfulness, noun …
56sadness — [n] unhappiness, depression anguish, blahs*, bleakness, blue devils*, blue funk*, broken heart*, bummer, cheerlessness, dejection, despondency, disconsolateness, dismals*, dispiritedness, distress, dolefulness, dolor, downcastness, downer*,… …
57sorrowful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) feeling or showing sorrow. 2) causing sorrow. DERIVATIVES sorrowfully adverb sorrowfulness noun …
58sorrowfully — sorrowful ► ADJECTIVE 1) feeling or showing sorrow. 2) causing sorrow. DERIVATIVES sorrowfully adverb sorrowfulness noun …
59sorrowful — [sär′əfəl, sôr′ə fəl] adj. [ME soruful < OE sorgful] full of sorrow; feeling, causing, or expressing sorrow SYN. SAD sorrowfully adv. sorrowfulness n …
60bereavement — noun state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑mourning • Derivationally related forms: ↑bereave, ↑mourn (for: ↑mourning) • H …
