Sorrowful vs Bored - What's the difference?
sorrowful | bored |
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(bore)
suffering from boredom
uninterested, without attention
perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)
As adjectives the difference between sorrowful and bored
is that sorrowful is of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught while bored is suffering from boredom.As a verb bored is
(bore).sorrowful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- sorrowful accident
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Synonyms
* See also * mournful, lamentable, grievous * See alsoExternal links
* *bored
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes