SORROWFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorrowfully mean? 

• SORROWFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb SORROWFULLY has 2 senses:

1. in a sorrowful manner

2. with sadness; in a sorrowful manner

  Familiarity information: SORROWFULLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORROWFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sorrowful manner

Pertainym:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With sadness; in a sorrowful manner

Synonyms:

dolefully; sorrowfully

Context example:

his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army

Pertainym:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

 Context examples 

Nor did she waste time in coming to the point, upbraiding him sorrowfully for what he had done.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Sorrowfully Dorothy left the Throne Room and went back where the Lion and the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman were waiting to hear what Oz had said to her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Thus Cat-skin lived for a long time very sorrowfully.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A restless spirit possessed her, and the old feeling came again, not bitter as it once was, but a sorrowfully patient wonder why one sister should have all she asked, the other nothing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I saw her stand where he had left her, like a statue; and then bend down her head, and clasp her hands, and weep, I cannot say how sorrowfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I mean,” she cried, sorrowfully correcting herself, “that I think I never shall, as far as the future can be answered for; I think I never shall return his regard.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was most sorrowfully indignant; ashamed of every sensation but the one revealed to her—her affection for Mr. Knightley.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At length she grew more calm and turning to him said, sweetly, but oh! so sorrowfully, as she held out her hand:—"I promise you, my dear friend, that if God will let me live, I shall strive to do so; till, if it may be in His good time, this horror may have passed away from me."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"I am—I certainly am," answered the little man sorrowfully; "but it was the only thing I could do. Sit down, please, there are plenty of chairs; and I will tell you my story."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"I should think every young man would want to go, though it is hard for the mothers and sisters who stay at home," she added sorrowfully.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)