sorrowing
/ˈsɑroʊɪŋ/
adjective
- Feeling or showing deep sadness, especially because of a loss or misfortune.
- The sorrowing community gathered to remember the victims.
- Her sorrowing expression told us she had received bad news.
- The sorrowing widow sat quietly at the funeral.
verb
- Present participle of sorrow: to feel or express deep sadness, typically due to a loss or regret.
- They are sorrowing for the destruction of their hometown.
- He sat alone, sorrowing about the mistakes he had made.
- She spent the evening sorrowing over her lost friendship.
noun
- The act or state of feeling deep sadness; mourning.
- The poem describes the sorrowing of a nation after its leader died.
- Her constant sorrowing worried her family.
- There was a time of sorrowing after the war ended.