Vex vs Sorrow - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between vex and sorrow

is that vex is (space|esa) while sorrow is (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.

to feel or express grief.

(es)

To trouble aggressively, to harass.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:

In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.

To annoy, irritate.

Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.

To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.

(rare) To twist, to weave.

* Dryden

some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom

(obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.

(Chapman)

To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

* Alexander Pope

White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.

* (English Citations of "vex")

* (to annoy) agitate, irritate * (to cause mental suffering) afflict, torment

* vexed * vexer * vexingly * vexation * vexatious

(uncountable) unhappiness, woe

* Rambler

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Parting is such sweet sorrow .

(en verb)

To feel or express grief.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

*, II.12:

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.

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