sorrow

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A deep feeling of sadness, especially after a loss.

   We felt tremendous sorrow at their loss.

2. 2
   noun

   An event or thing that causes great unhappiness.

   The loss of her job was just one of many sorrows that year.

3. 3
   verb

   To feel or express deep sadness.

   They sorrowed for the friends they had lost in the war.

Common collocations

• bitter sorrow Adjective + noun

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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