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SORROWFUL
Definition of SORROWFUL
adjective
exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow + -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SORROWFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SORROWFUL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read FLOORRSUW - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start SORROW
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SORROWFUL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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