Meaning

2 senses

  1. (uncountable)Unhappiness, woe

    Kummer, Traurigkeit, Trauer

    го́реgóre, печа́льpečálʹ, грустьgrustʹ

    печа́льpečálʹ, го́реhóre, сму́токsmútok

    something that causes great unhappiness

  2. (countable)(usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

    Parting is such sweet sorrow.

    го́реgóre, печа́льpečálʹ, грустьgrustʹ

Examples

164 sentences

  1. Forget your sorrows.

    Забудь про свою печаль. — uaspeaker

    ruЗабудь свою печаль. — shanghainese

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  2. The news filled her with sorrow.

    ruНовость глубоко опечалила её. — Hellerick

    deDie Neuigkeit erfüllte sie mit Sorge. — Tamy

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  3. My heart was filled with sorrow.

    ruМое сердце было наполнено скорбью. — Balamax

    deMein Herz war voller Sorge. — Tamy

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  4. Tom's heart was filled with sorrow.

    ruСердце Тома было наполнено печалью. — marafon

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  5. Our hearts were full of sorrow.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
unhappiness:
Русский
By meaning 1
unhappiness:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
unhappiness:

Origin

From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sor

From Middle English sorwe, sorow, sorewe, from Old English sorg, sorh (“care, anxiety, sorrow, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surgō (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swergʰ- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit सूर्क्षति (sū́rkṣati, “worry”). Despite the similarity in form and meaning, not historically related to sorry and sore.

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Forms

plural: sorrows
Singularsorrow
Pluralsorrows

regular

Synonyms

49 synonyms
depressionB1griefB2melancholyC2miseryB1mournB1regretB2sadnessB1unhappinessB2misfortuneB2adversityB2calamityC2catastropheB2disasterB1qualmC2
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
joy

Word family

9 related words
Derivedseeksorrowsorrowfulsorrowfullysorrowfulnesssorrowlesssorrowlysorrow-riddensorrowsomesorrowy

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
soreB1sorelysororitysorrowfulsorryA1

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