different between ill-boding vs sorrowful
ill-boding
English
Etymology
ill +? boding
Adjective
ill-boding (comparative more ill-boding, superlative most ill-boding)
- which bodes evil; portending bad things
Synonyms
- inauspicious
Antonyms
- auspicious
Related terms
- ill-fated
Translations
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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.
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