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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor..
In a bicentennial comment for Newsweek, he took issue with those who played the role of Seeksorrow. The Yale literary magazine had written him asking if he thought things were going to get worse […]
When my parents drove us up to Stratford, Ontario, to see a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the word seeksorrow leapt out at me from the stage, and I've loved it ever since.
I do not think you are a seeksorrow, giving yourself comfort in vexation.
Use seek sorrow when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Seek sorrow means A person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In a bicentennial comment for Newsweek, he took issue with those who played the role of Seeksorrow. The Yale literary magazine had written him asking if he thought things were going to get worse […]
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