Antonyms for sorrow
ˈsɒr oʊ, ˈsɔr oʊsor·row

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1. sorrow

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   affliction, distress, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sadness, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 6 votes

1. sorrow

   Antonyms:
   joy, gladness, rejoicing

   Synonyms:
   affliction, grief, sadness, trouble, regret, distress, mental pain, ruth, mourning

Matched Categories

1. • Sadness
   • Suffer

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1. sorrownoun

   an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

   "he tried to express his sorrow at her loss"

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joyfulness, joy

   Synonyms:
   regret, ruefulness, rue, sadness, grief, sorrowfulness

2. sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulnessnoun

   sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

   "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joyfulness, joy

   Synonyms:
   regret, ruefulness, grief, rue, sorrowfulness, herb of grace, sadness

3. grief, sorrownoun

   something that causes great unhappiness

   "her death was a great grief to John"

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joy, joyfulness

   Synonyms:
   regret, sadness, ruefulness, brokenheartedness, heartache, sorrowfulness, heartbreak, rue, grief

4. sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulnessverb

   the state of being sad

   "she tired of his perpetual sadness"

   Antonyms:
   joyousness, joy, joyfulness

   Synonyms:
   regret, unhappiness, sadness, ruefulness, grief, gloominess, mournfulness, lugubriousness, sorrowfulness, rue, ruthfulness

5. grieve, sorrowverb

   feel grief

   Antonyms:
   joyfulness, joyousness, joy

   Synonyms:
   grieve, aggrieve

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1. sorrownoun

   Synonyms:
   grief, regret, remorse, misery, heaviness, rue, unhappiness, contrition, dolor, agony, distress, compunction, bereavement

2. sorrowverb

   Synonyms:
   grieve, mourn, regret, deplore, bewail, lament

How to use sorrow in a sentence?

1. AiR Atman in Ravi:

   Why do we shuttle between Joy and Sorrow? Between Yesterday and Tomorrow? It is because of our IGNORANCE . We live, we cry and we die!

2. Thomas Gray:

   Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.

3. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

   The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

5. Confucius:

   If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand

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