sorrow-ridden
sorrow-ridden adjective: filled with sorrow or sorrows.
Adjective
sorrow-ridden (comparative more sorrow-ridden, superlative most sorrow-ridden)
- Filled with sorrow or sorrows.
- […] Miss Terry is as unconvincing as the least known member of her company. She is Kniertje, a fisherman’s widow, one who has already dearly paid the sea, but she does not for one brief instant suggest the sorrow-ridden fisherman’s widow; she appears to be only acting the part.1907 March 2, “The Season’s Plays: Ellen Terry in Two Plays”, in Harper’s Weekly, volume 51, number 2619, page 316
- Huddled in the stern of the boat she sat with her baby strained close to her bosom, and because of that little, tender, helpless thing she was happier tonight than she had been for many a sorrow-ridden day.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 9, in The Beasts of Tarzan, New York: A.L. Burt, page 143
- Synonyms:
- sorrowful, sorrowsome, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless
Synonyms of sorrow-ridden
- sorrowful
- sorrowsome
- atrabiliary
- atrabilious
- blitheless
- dispirited
- blue
- bummed out
- chapfallen
- cheerless
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Forms of sorrow-ridden
| comparative | more sorrow-ridden |
|---|---|
| superlative | most sorrow-ridden |
Origin of sorrow-ridden
From sorrow + ridden.
Questions about sorrow-ridden
- What does sorrow-ridden mean?
- Sorrow-ridden means filled with sorrow or sorrows.
- What part of speech is sorrow-ridden?
- Sorrow-ridden is an adjective.
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