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Translate sorrowful from English to French

Summary

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sorrowful:
- sombre; affligé de; dolent
Wiktionary:
- sorrowful → triste, douloureux

English

Detailed Translations for sorrowful from English to French

sorrowful:

sorrowful adj

sorrowful (sorry; sad; plaintive; woeful)
sombre; affligé de; dolent
- sombre adj
- affligé de adj
- dolent adj

Translation Matrix for sorrowful:

Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
affligé de	plaintive; sad; sorrowful; sorry; woeful	afflicted with; eccentric; exceptional; extremely; greatly; highly; particular; special; ultra
dolent	plaintive; sad; sorrowful; sorry; woeful	bad tempered; cantankerous; complaining; crabbed; crusty; grumpy; lamenting; moody; wailing
sombre	plaintive; sad; sorrowful; sorry; woeful	cheerless; dark; deathlike; deathly; dismal; distressed; drab; dreary; dull; eccentric; exceptional; extremely; full of worries; gloomy; greatly; grey; highly; joyless; mat; melancholic; moody; morbid; nostalgic; particular; pensive; pessimistic; sad; somber; sombre; special; triste; ultra; unlit; wistful

Related Words for "sorrowful":

sorrowfulness, sorrowfully

Synonyms for "sorrowful":

anguished; tormented; tortured; bereaved; bereft; grief-stricken; grieving; mourning; sorrowing; bitter; brokenhearted; heartbroken; heartsick; dolorous; dolourous; lachrymose; tearful; weeping; elegiac; grievous; heartbreaking; heartrending; lamenting; wailing; wailful; lugubrious; mournful; plaintive; sad; woebegone; woeful; joyless; unhappy

Antonyms for "sorrowful":

joyful

Related Definitions for "sorrowful":

experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss¹
- sorrowful widows¹
- a sorrowful tale of death and despair¹
- sorrowful news¹
- even in laughter the heart is sorrowful¹

Wiktionary Translations for sorrowful:

sorrowful

adjective

full of sorrow
- sorrowful → triste; douloureux

sorrowful

adjective

Qui est affliger, qui éprouver du chagrin.
- triste → sad; unhappy; sorrowful

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¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University