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adjective

Definition of sorrowingnext
as in mourning

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sorrowing

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noun

as in weeping

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sorrowing

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verb

present participle of sorrow
as in grieving
to feel deep sadness or mental pain the soldier's widow continued to sorrow long after her husband's last letter had turned yellow with age

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorrowing
  1. grieving
  2. sad
  3. mourning
  4. aching
  5. mournful
  6. suffering
  7. melancholy
  8. unhappy
Verb
  • Here are some ideas about what to say to a grieving friend.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The holidays can be difficult for people who are grieving or don't have anyone nearby with whom to celebrate.
    Gael Langdon, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of grieving
Adjective
  • Concept art revealed at D23 also showed the gang of toys — such as Jessie the yodeling cowgirl (voiced by different actresses) and Rex (Wallace Shawn) — looking sad as their owner seemed more interested in a tablet, hinting at their emotional yet humorous struggles.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • The post-Christmas blues are about to get a little less sad with the NFL‘s Triple Header games featuring six teams going head to head.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 27 Dec. 2024
Definition of sad
Noun
  • For almost three years, our morning routine has been one of mourning.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • French President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to visit Mayotte soon and to declare a national mourning period.
    Adrienne Surprenant and Tom Nouvian, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of mourning
Verb
  • The imagery of The Pink Opaque’s Midnight Realm is frightening, but the potent themes and aching nostalgia are what will keep you up at night.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Risotto, in other words, is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of aching
Adjective
  • Her observations as a woman once romantically involved with the two of them at the same time, confirm their masculine inability to speak their feelings out loud unless they are veiled in mournful songs.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of mournful
Noun
  • Indeed, both Hollywood and institutions like Harvard have a role to play in reducing the suffering of homelessness.
    Jeremy Barber, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
  • His own mom’s struggles, and her death further prodded him to write a story on the pain and sufferings of a mother.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of suffering
Adjective
  • The melancholy voiceover from Elsa Dutton (Isabel May) from 1883 is a nice touch, too, a monologue about the suffering people go through to maintain their control and exploitation of land.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Jim Jarmusch’s deeply romantic, deeply melancholy Only Lovers Left Alive stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as a vampiric couple who are currently living on different continents, because what’s a little bit of distance when time doesn’t have meaning.
    James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of melancholy
Adjective
  • Some artists and publishers are unhappy with the way their content is being scraped freely by companies like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models — AI models trained on huge quantities of data to generate humanlike responses.
    Ryan Browne, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Cronin — who had to cancel some summer shows this year due to unspecified health issues — further acknowledges that there’s acrimony between he and Hall, and he’s been unhappy with some of the social media discourse blaming him for the end of the REO Speedwagon name.
    Gary Graff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of unhappy
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