Usually means: Expressing deep sadness or regret.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word sorrowfully:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sorrowfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. sorrowfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sorrowfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sorrowfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sorrowfully, sorrowfully: Wordnik
  6. sorrowfully: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sorrowfully: Wiktionary
  8. sorrowfully: Dictionary.com
  9. sorrowfully: Rhymezone
  10. sorrowfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sorrowfully: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sorrowfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. sorrowfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorrowfully: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a sorrowful manner; with sorrow and regret.

Similar:
dolefully, regretfully, remorsefully, sadly, sorrowingly, ruefully, mournfully, mourningly, grievingly, lamentingly, more...

Opposite:
joyfully, happily, cheerfully

Types:
sadly, more...

Phrases:
speak sorrowfully, confess sorrowfully, admit sorrowfully, to sorrowfully illuminate, more...

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Similar:
dolefully, regretfully, remorsefully, sadly, sorrowingly, ruefully, mournfully, mourningly, grievingly, lamentingly, more...

Opposite:
joyfully, happily, cheerfully

Types:
sadly, more...

Phrases:
speak sorrowfully, confess sorrowfully, admit sorrowfully, to sorrowfully illuminate, more...



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