different between distasteful vs sorrowful
distasteful
English
Alternative forms
- distastefull (archaic)
Etymology
distaste +? -ful or dis- +? tasteful
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s?te?stf??/
- Rhymes: -e?stf?l
Adjective
distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)
- Having a bad or foul taste.
- (figuratively) Unpleasant.
- Offensive.
Antonyms
- pleasant, pleasing
Translations
distasteful From the web:
- what distasteful mean
- what does distasteful mean
- what do distasteful mean
- what does distasteful mean synonym
- what does distasteful mean in spanish
- what is distasteful fashion
- what does distasteful definition
- what does distasteful stand for
sorrowful
English
Etymology
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow +? -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?s??o?f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??o?f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s????f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?s????f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- Hyphenation: sor?row?ful
Adjective
sorrowful (comparative more sorrowful, superlative most sorrowful)
- (of a person) exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught.
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
- sorrowful accident
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Synonyms
- mournful, lamentable, grievous
- See also Thesaurus:sad
- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
Translations
Further reading
- sorrowful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sorrowful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
sorrowful From the web:
- what sorrowful means
- what sorrowful in french
- sorrowful what does this mean
- what are sorrowful mysteries
- what does sorrowful mean in english
- what does sorrowful passion mean
- what does sorrowful mysteries mean
- what do sorrowful mean
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- distasteful vs sorrowful
- manifest vs pretended
- conceiving vs launching
- permissiveness vs benignity
- name vs note
- instigate vs kindle
- passage vs exit
- current vs rapids
- house vs kin
- role vs impersonation
- undertaking vs operation
- damaging vs unhealthful
- troop vs press
- fit vs trustworthy
- knot vs sac
- mate vs beau
- gruesome vs heinous
- restraint vs discouragement
- avid vs thirsting
- dauntlessness vs nerve