deep sorrow
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3.7
- noun
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profunda tristeza
- After losing her beloved pet, she felt an overwhelming sense of deep sorrow that lingered for weeks.
- express deep sorrow
- feel deep sorrow
- deep sorrow at your loss
A chance to feel all of life, from deep sorrow to deep bliss.
- A chance to feel all of life, from deep sorrow to deep bliss.
- There are three ways that a person expresses deep sorrow.
- And when I said it, I was in a place of deep sorrow.
- And so we feel this mixture of anger and sadness and just deep sorrow mixed in with confusion and uncertainty and and anxiety and fear.
Examples
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We Christians, like all other humans, experience conflict in our moral choices and deep sorrow at the vicissitudes of life.
Academic text (2009) -
Mouth gone bitter with disappointment, her face was a mask of deep sorrow.
Fiction book (1997) -
But I felt a deep sorrow for him.
Fiction book (1992) -
Lord God, hold them close to you in their time of deep sorrow.
Blog text (14) -
There are unique moments when two people share the deep sorrow of existence.
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But for my family, life had not been only about building houses and having children; the passing years had brought with them times of deep sorrow.
Fiction book (1995) -
But before you go, I'm sure the whole board wishes to express its deep sorrow - at the passing of Peter Bailey.
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Only in deep sorrow and exquisite joy intertwined can we really see His heart.
Blog text (24) -
It had never occurred to me before that a quilter puts her own emotions into her work, that each quilt could be an expression of her joy or her deep sorrow.
Fiction book (1992) -
Across the decades, we have prayed during moments of deep sorrow and great joy—through 100 Good Fridays and Easter Sundays.
Blog text (30)
Synonyms
443
2.1
Deep sadness after you lose someone or something important
330
3.7
A deep feeling of sadness and loss of interest in life
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2.8
A feeling of great unhappiness and suffering
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1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
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5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
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9.9
Deep, painful sadness about a loss
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6.5
A deep, quiet feeling or look of sadness
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9.9
A deep feeling of sadness and quiet sorrow
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9.9
A deep sadness about the suffering and unfairness in the world
Deep, quiet sadness often caused by grief
Very deep sadness that feels too strong to understand
A deep feeling of sadness about a loss
Deep sadness after losing someone you love
A feeling of deep sadness and loss
Antonyms
How Sad
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a feeling of intense sadness' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'deep' (very strong/extreme) with 'sorrow' (grief), because 'deep' functions as an intensifier modifying an emotional noun. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Deep sorrow uses the image of sadness as a deep, dark hole or a wide sea. The words deep and sorrow show that being deep in this feeling is hard to get out of. So, deep sorrow means 'very strong sadness'.