Adjective: sorrowsome
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sorrowsome |
| Superlative | most sorrowsome |
Sample Sentences
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The note strikes the young artist curiously, but just then the squeaky elevator arrives with a sorrowsome ding and she is distracted by its squawking doors and a grumbling old lady with a shopping bag. [2005, Robert Dugger, Between Colors:]
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Then He too laughing asks me “Why so pale And sorrow-some? [...]” [2011, Omar Khayyam, A. P Briggs, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:]
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She burst into sobs and moans, wailing like nobody's business a prompting the gathering to follow her sorrow-some lead. [2012, Jayme Alan Toomey, A Passin’ On:]
Adjectives inflected like sorrowsome
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From sorrow + -some. Compare Dutch zorgzaam (“careful; considerate”), German sorgsam (“careful”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
zorgzaam', German Adjectives '
sorgsam'.