Adjective:

துக்கமடையவும்,

sorrowful's Usage Examples:

Still, some adherents of the old Israelitish moral and religious standards must have survived, only they were not to be found in the chief places of concourse, but as a rule in coteries which handed on the traditions of Amos and Isaiah in sorrowful retirement.

"You know her husband, of course?" said Anna Pavlovna, closing her eyes and indicating Helene with a sorrowful gesture.

The emotive When I Close My Eyes tugs the heartstrings with the sorrowful line " boy it never ends.

The curacas sorrowfully watched the gradual extinction of their people by the operation of the mita, protesting from time to time against the exactions and cruelty of the Spaniards.

Better die a thousand times than risk receiving an unkind look or bad opinion from him, Rostov decided; and sorrowfully and with a heart full despair he rode away, continually looking back at the Tsar, who still remained in the same attitude of indecision.

A sorrowful supplication, in which the speakers deplore, not the fall of Jerusalem, but their own state of galling dependence and hopeless poverty.

The old king had sorrowfully confessed that God had not given him a son capable of governing his vast dominions, and had foreseen that Philip III.

Sa(h)m exhorts the other giants to cheer up and eat but they are too sorrowful to eat and instead fall asleep.

What a sorrowful act must that be--the covering up of wells! coincident with the opening of wells of tears.

At one extremity of the enclosing canal is the Schreijerstoren (1482) or "Weepers' Tower," so called on account of its being at the head of the ancient harbour, and the scene in former days of sorrowful leave-takings.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

unimportant, noncritical, happy, joyful, joyous,