SORROWFUL Synonyms

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• blue clothing

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• the sky as viewed during daylight

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• suggestive of sexual impropriety

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• morally rigorous and strict

• causing dejection

• turn blue

• brought low in spirit

• affected or marked by low spirits

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• full of sorrow

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• deeply or seriously thoughtful

• showing pensive sadness

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness

• affected by or full of grief or woe

• of very poor quality or condition

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• very unhappy; full of misery

• morally reprehensible

• deserving or inciting pity

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shockingly brutal or cruel

• bad; unfortunate