sorrowful (adj.)
- affecting
- afflicted
- afflictive
- anguished
- bitter
- bleak
- blue
- careworn
- cheerless
- comfortless
- complaining
- crestfallen
- dejected
- deplorable
- depressed
- depressing
- depressive
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dismal
- dismaying
- dispirited
- distressful
- distressing
- doleful
- dolorous
- downcast
- dreary
- faultfinding
- fretful
- gloomy
- grief-stricken
- grievous
- hapless
- heartsick
- howling
- inconsolable
- joyless
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- painful
- pathetic
- peevish
- petulant
- piteous
- pitiable
- plaintive
- plangent
- poignant
- querulous
- regretful
- regrettable
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sharp
- sore
- sorrowing
- sorry
- tearful
- touching
- troublous
- uncomfortable
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- unlucky
- wailful
- whiny
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
