sorrowful

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɒɹəʊfəl/|/ˈsɒɹəfəl/    美 /ˈsɑɹoʊfəl/|/ˈsɑɹəfəl/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
  2. Producing sorrow; causing grief.
    — sorrowful accident

词形变化

more sorrowful comparative most sorrowful superlative sorrowfull alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
sorrowfully sorrowfulness unsorrowful

词源

From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
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