different between sorrowful vs solitary
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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solitary
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?l?t??i/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s?l?t?i/
Etymology 1
From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Latin s?lit?rius.
Noun
solitary (countable and uncountable, plural solitaries)
- (countable) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 24]:
- He brooded and intrigued fantastically. He was becoming one of the big-time solitaries. And he wasn't meant to be a solitary. He was meant to be in active life, a social creature.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 24]:
- (uncountable) Solitary confinement.
- The prisoners who started the riot were moved to solitary.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:recluse
Translations
Adjective
solitary (not comparable)
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Performed, passed, or endured alone
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- 1769, Bible (King James Version), Lamentations 1.1
- How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
- 1769, Bible (King James Version), Lamentations 1.1
- gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
- Single; individual; sole.
- (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
solitary
- (archaic) The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria), an extinct flightless bird.
Anagrams
- royalist
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