different between adversity vs sorrow
adversity
English
Etymology
From Old French adversité, from Latin adversit?tem, the accusative singular of adversit?s, from adversus, the perfect passive participle of advert? (“I turn toward”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /æd?v?.s?.ti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æd?v??.s?.ti/
- Hyphenation: ad?ver?si?ty
Noun
adversity (usually uncountable, plural adversities)
- (uncountable) The state of adverse conditions; state of misfortune or calamity.
- (countable) An event that is adverse; calamity.
Synonyms
- nakba
Antonyms
- (adverse event): fortuity
Related terms
- adverse
- adversely
Translations
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sorrow
English
Etymology
From Middle English sorow, sorwe, from Old English sorg, from Proto-West Germanic *sorgu, from Proto-Germanic *surg? (compare West Frisian soarch, Dutch zorg, German Sorge, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sorg), from Proto-Indo-European *swerg?- (“watch over, worry; be ill, suffer”) (compare Old Irish serg (“sickness”), Tocharian B sark (“sickness”), Lithuanian sirgti (“be sick”), Sanskrit ????????? (s??rk?ati, “worry”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?r'?, IPA(key): /?s????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??o?/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?s??o?/
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
sorrow (countable and uncountable, plural sorrows)
- (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
- August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- August 28, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
- (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)
- (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
- (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Derived terms
- besorrow
Translations
References
- “sorrow” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "sorrow" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
sorrow From the web:
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