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say it: SAH-roh
sorrow is a noun and verb meaning "an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement". It carries 5 recorded senses.
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
“he tried to express his sorrow at her loss”
sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
“he drank to drown his sorrows”
“he wrote a note expressing his regret”
“to his rue, the error cost him the game”
something that causes great unhappiness
“her death was a great grief to John”
the state of being sad
“she tired of his perpetual sadness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sorrow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.