sorrowfully

1. 1.

   in a sorrowful manner
2. 2.

   with sadness; in a sorrowful manner

   “his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army”

   Synonymsdolefully

Questions about sorrowfully

What does sorrowfully mean?

sorrowfully means "in a sorrowful manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sorrowfully?

sorrowfully has 4 syllables: sor-row-ful-ly. The stress falls on "row".

What is another word for sorrowfully?

Close synonyms include dolefully. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sorrowfully a common word?

sorrowfully is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.