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печа́ль — meaning in English

pechal

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English meaning

  • affliction noun A condition or event that causes ongoing pain, suffering, or hardship.
  • grief noun Deep sorrow, especially caused by loss or bereavement.
  • sadness noun The state of feeling sad; sorrow.
  • sorrow noun Deep sadness, especially over a loss.
  • woe noun Deep sadness or distress, or a misfortune that causes it.

Senses

печа́ль is used for these senses in English:

  • affliction A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
  • dolour (chiefly, uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
  • grief Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]
  • sadness (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
  • sorrow (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
  • sorrow (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

grief — full definition

  1. noun Deep sorrow, especially caused by loss or bereavement.
  2. noun A source of trouble or annoyance (informal).

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