Sorrow vs Rueful - What's the difference?
sorrow | rueful |
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
* Rambler
(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
To feel or express grief.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
*, II.12:
Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.
Inspiring pity or compassion.
As a noun sorrow
is (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.As a verb sorrow
is to feel or express grief.As an adjective rueful is
causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow.sorrow
English
Noun
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
- Parting is such sweet sorrow .
Verb
(en verb)- ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’
- It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.