Synonyms of the word

sorrow

• n. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.
• n. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
• v. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

grief

• n. Suffering, hardship.
• n. Pain of mind arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, misconduct of oneself or others, etc…
• n. (countable) Cause or instance of sorrow or pain; that which afflicts or distresses; trial.
• v. (online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to…

grieve

• v. (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
• v. (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
• v. (intransitive) To experience grief.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To harm.
• v. (transitive) To submit or file a grievance.
• n. (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.

regret

• v. To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened,…
• v. (more generally) To feel sorry about (any thing).
• n. Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different;…
• n. (obsolete) Dislike; aversion.

rue

• n. (archaic or dialectal) Sorrow; repentance; regret.
• n. (archaic or dialectal) Pity; compassion.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to feel sorrow or pity.
• v. (transitive) To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had…
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel compassion or pity.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To feel sorrow or regret.
• n. Any of various perennial shrubs of the genus Ruta, especially the herb Ruta graveolens, formerly used…

ruefulness

• n. The property of being rueful.

sadness

• n. (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
• n. (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

sorrowfulness

• n. The quality or state of sorrow; sadness.

suffer

• v. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
• v. (intransitive) To feel pain.
• v. (intransitive) To become worse.
• v. (transitive) To endure, undergo.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

unhappiness

• n. The feeling of not being happy.