Difference between Sorrowful and Grief Stricken

SORROWFUL vs GRIEF STRICKEN: ADJECTIVE

Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Causing sorrow.
Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. : sad.
Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

It was so sorrowful that my eyes teared up.
John the Divine are not so sorrowful as yesterday.
When he spoke his voice was resigned and sorrowful.
Patrons modulate dollar from sorrowful walk of American drugs.
He would always look like a sorrowful white boy.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
To this sorrowful appeal Moses answers with encouragement.
Francis Hospital, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Rev.
It is sorrowful only for those left behind.
Parting is sorrowful but to choose the other over God is more sorrowful and has eternal consequences.

One variant citation needed states that Mary died during a botched abortion and the grief-stricken Rudolf killed himself.
The children left to comfort the grief stricken wife and mother are; Mrs.
Grief stricken over losing his friend, Achilles vows to avenge his death.
Below: Princeton High School students, left, watch as Ammon Kansupada, right, portrays a grief-stricken drunken driver.
Grief stricken and filled with rage, what depths will he sink to in his search for revenge?
The grief stricken parents have the sympathy of all.
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Pure greed and predator upon the grief stricken people just to make a buck.
Mukundane is permanently grief stricken before the birth of Marina.
We are grief stricken to announce his sudden death.