distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.

a cause or occasion of grief or regret, as an affliction, a misfortune, or trouble

His first sorrow was the bank failure.

the expression of grief, sadness, disappointment, or the like

muffled sorrow.

to feel sorrow; grieve.

noun

happiness , joy , relief

verb

be happy , be joyful , delight , relieve

noun

affliction , agony , anguish , bad news * , big trouble , blow , blues * , care , catastrophe , dejection , depression , distress , dolor , grieving , hardship , heartache , heartbreak , lamenting , melancholy , misery , misfortune , mourning , pain , rain * , regret , remorse , repentance , rue , sadness , suffering , trial , tribulation , trouble , unhappiness , weeping , woe , worry , wretchedness , bereavement , commiseration , compassion , compunction , contrition , grief , heaviness , lamentation , penitence , sympathy

verb

agonize , bemoan , be sad , bewail , carry on , cry a river , deplore , eat heart out , grieve , groan , hang crepe , lament , moan , mourn , regret , sing the blues , sob , take on * , weep , suffer , affliction , agony , anguish , bale , calamity , commiserate , despair , discomfort , distress , dolor , grief , hardship , heartache , lamentation , loss , melancholy , misery , misfortune , mourning , pity , remorse , rue , sadness , suffering , tribulation , trouble , unhappiness , woe