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sorryful

adj

Etymology

From sorry + -ful.

  1. derived from *seh₂yro✻ — “hard, rough, painful”
  2. inherited from *sairagaz✻ — “sad”
  3. inherited from *sairag✻
  4. inherited from sāriġ — “feeling or expressing grief, sorry, grieved, sorrowful, sad, mournful, bitter”
  5. inherited from sory
  6. suffixed as sorryful — “sorry + ful”

Definitions

  1. sorrowful

    • Troye was most sorryful for being unable to get along with the others.
    • Adam and Eve‥felt very sorryful for their departure from Eden and wished to return.
    • I think I have a method of remedying this sorryful condition. Let each Local elect three press secretaries.

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