Meaning

Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Very sad; inclined to sob (weep with convulsive gasps).
2. Resembling or characteristic of a sob.
3. (now rare) That has been sobbed (soaked); saturated with moisture.

Example Sentences

It began, 'Where is my wandering boy to-night?' and by the time she was through I was feeling so mushy and sobby that I put a five instead of a one into the plate by mistake.

Every piece of furniture, from the threadbare sofa to the rickety center table, seems kind of sad and sobby.

a sobby sound

Nobody knows who he was; but no matter how wet the leaves, how sobby the twigs, no matter if there was no fire in a mile of the camp, that fellow could start one.

The original building of the house, and its blood-stained foundation stones; the dead who had died of the pestilence that had raged afterward; the bodies carted by scores and buried in the sobby earth of the graveyard, whose trees loomed up through the broken window; […]

The woman served him sullenly, placing some sobby biscuits and a piece of cold bacon on his plate, and pouring out a glass of buttermilk with a vicious thrust of the pitcher.

Word Forms

• sobbier
• sobbiest

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When Should You Use Sobby?

Use sobby when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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