# sorrowful

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈsɔɹoʊfəl/ · frequency rank #41,896

## Definitions
1. exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
2. Producing sorrow; causing grief.

## Etymology
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).

## Common misspellings (12)
`osrrowful`, `sororwful`, `sorowful`, `sorrofwul`, `sorrowfful`, `sorrowflu`, `sorrowfull`, `sorrowufl`, `sorrowwful`, `sorrwoful`, `srorowful`, `ssorrowful`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sorrowful