Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
sorrow (noun)1.
a) deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved
b) resultant unhappy or unpleasant state - to their great sorrow they could not marry
2.
a cause of grief or sadness
3.
a display of grief or sadness
intransitive verb
to feel or express sorrow
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
sorrow (noun)deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved
SYNONIMS:
affliction, anguish, dolefulness, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, sorriness, woeRELATED WORDS:
agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment; blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness; contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame; melancholia, self-pityNEAR ANTONYMS:
gaiety ( gayety), gayness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness; hopefulness, optimism, sunniness; enjoyment; content, contentedness, contentmentto feel deep sadness or mental pain
SYNONIMS:
agonize, anguish, bleed, hurt, mourn, sorrow, sufferRELATED WORDS:
ache, long (for), pine (away), sigh, smart; rack, torment, torture; bemoan, bewail, deplore, lament, rue; bawl, blubber, cry, groan, howl, keen, moan, sob, take on, wail, weep, yammer, yowl; languish; regretNEAR ANTONYMS:
beam, cheer, crow, delight, exult, glory, joy, laugh, ravish, rejoice, triumph; assure, cheer, comfort, commiserate, console, reassure, solace, soothe, sympathize