SOR'ROWFUL, A.
1. Sad grieving for the loss of some good, or on account of some expected evil.
2. Deeply serious depressed dejected. 1 Samuel 1 .
3. Producing sorrow exciting grief mournful as a sorrowful accident.
4. Expressing grief accompanied with grief as sorrowful meat. Job 6 .
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