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sorrowest

sorrowest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of sorrow.

Meaning of sorrow

Verb

sorrow (third-person singular simple present sorrows, present participle sorrowing, simple past and past participle sorrowed)

  1. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
    • ‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 424
  2. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
    • 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

See all 5 meanings of sorrow

Origin of sorrowest

sorrow + -est

Questions about sorrowest

What is sorrowest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sorrowest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of sorrow.

Words near sorrowest in the dictionary

  1. sorrowe
  2. sorrowed
  3. sorrower
  4. sorrowers
  5. sorrowes
  6. sorrowest
  7. sorroweth
  8. sorrowful
  9. Sorrowful Mother
  10. sorrowfully
  11. sorrowfulness

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