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)
- 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
- 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
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
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sorrowest (page history and authors); sorrow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “sorrowest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sorrowest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
