Synonyms of sorrowful

1 Syllable

sad

2 Syllables

bummed, mournful, hurting, saddest, poignant, grievous, painful, rueful, mirthless, let-down, beefing, ruthful, sadder, sorry, piteous, teary, tearful, woeful, drearier, dolent, tragic, dreary, cheerless, wretched, dismal

3 Syllables

pitiable, despondent, regretful, pitiful, guilt-ridden, contrite, heartbroken, plaintive, anguished, lugubrious, threnodial, unhappiest, dirgeful, distressing, heartrending, unhappier, depressed, heartsore, godawful, chapfallen, tear-jerking, dejected, unhappy, blubbery, downhearted, elegiac, afflicted, lamenting, doleful, dolorous, affecting

4 Syllables

down-in-the-mouth, woebegone, penitential, self-reproachful, lamentable, saturnine, brokenhearted, dolesome, dolorific, melancholy, miserable, remorseful, heavy-hearted, drearisome

5 Syllables

disconsolate