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sorrowsome

adj

Etymology

From sorrow + -some. Compare Dutch zorgzaam (“careful; considerate”), German sorgsam (“careful”).

  1. derived from *swergʰ-✻ — “watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”
  2. inherited from *surgō✻
  3. inherited from *sorgu✻
  4. inherited from sorg
  5. inherited from sorwe
  6. suffixed as sorrowsome — “sorrow + some”

Definitions

  1. Marked by sorrow

    Marked by sorrow; sad; dreary; sorrowful

    • The note strikes the young artist curiously, but just then the squeaky elevator arrives with a sorrowsome ding and she is distracted by its squawking doors and a grumbling old lady with a shopping bag.
    • Then He too laughing asks me “Why so pale And sorrow-some? [...]”
    • She burst into sobs and moans, wailing like nobody's business a prompting the gathering to follow her sorrow-some lead.

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