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sorrowful

adj
/ˈsɔɹoʊfəl/CA/ˈsɑɹoʊfəl/US/ˈsɒɹəʊfəl/UK/ˈsɔɹɐʉfɘl/

Etymology

From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).

  1. inherited from *surgafullaz✻ — “full of care; anxious”
  2. inherited from sorhful
  3. inherited from sorweful

Definitions

  1. exhibiting sorrow

    exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)

  2. Producing sorrow

    Producing sorrow; causing grief.

    • sorrowful accident

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sorrowful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sorrowful02distraught03insane04insanity05madness06rash07careful

A definitional loop anchored at sorrowful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sorrowful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA