different between annoyance vs sorrow
annoyance
English
Alternative forms
- annoyaunce (obsolete)
- annoying (obsolete)
- annoyment (nonstandard)
Etymology
From Middle English anoiaunce, from Old French anuiance, anoiance, from the verb anuier (“to cause problems”). Compare French ennui.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n???ns/
Noun
annoyance (countable and uncountable, plural annoyances)
- (countable) That which annoys.
- (countable) An act or instance of annoying.
- (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
Synonyms
- nark
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.
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