What is the meaning of sorrowful?

adjective

  • Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss. "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful- Proverbs 14: 13
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