sorrow, n. 1. grief, sadness, Archaic, dole, woe, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; misery, Archaic, bale, dolor, anguish; ache, hurt, pain, suffering; torture, torment, agony; bereavement, mourning; woefulness, wretchedness, heaviness of heart, desolation, dejection, depression, oppression; disconsolateness, unhappiness, infelicity.
2. repentance, contrition, penitence, regret, rue, remorse, compunction.
3. distress, affliction, grievance, trouble, worry, vexation; plight, strait, predicament, sea of troubles, difficulty, rub; burden, load, albatross, cross, onus, crown of thorns, bitter pill, millstone around one's neck; cares, pressure, stress, strain; trial, travail, tribulation, curse, ordeal, infliction.
4. misfortune, adversity, mischance, reverse; hindrance, handicap, impediment; hard luck, ill luck, bad luck, bad fortune, hard times, evil days; hardship, privation, austerity, pinch, extremity; disaster, calamity, catastrophe, evil; blight, cancer, canker, scourge, pestilence.
5. lament, lamentation, jeremiad, cry, wail, weep, ululation, weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; keen, threnody, dirge, (in Scotland and Ireland) coronach.
-v. 6. grieve, mourn, pine, weep; bewail, bemoan, lament; despond, despair, lose heart, droop, languish, sink.
7. rue, regret, repine, deplore; take to heart, lay to heart.
sorrowful, adj. 1. sad, unhappy, dejected, depressed, despondent, crestfallen, chapfallen, downcast, Inf. down, Inf. low, feeling low, in low spirits, in the doldrums, Inf. down in the dumps, Inf. down in the mouth; discouraged, disheartened, downhearted, dispirited, Sl. bummed or bummed out; gloomy, melancholy, blue; inconsolable, disconsolate, heavy-hearted, crushed, broken, heartbroken, brokenhearted, sick at heart, heartsick; wretched, miserable, woebegone; bowed-down, heavy-laden, in the depths or bowels of despair, Sl. in the pits.
2. plaintive, mournful, sighful, full of pathos; wistful, longing, yearning; wailing, ululating, crying, moaning, weeping; heart-rending, moving, affecting, touching; doleful, rueful; pitiful, piteous, pathetic; elegiac, dirgelike, dirgeful.