About The Word Mournful
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Mournful
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What's The Definition Of Mournful?
[adj] filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
[adj] expressing sorrow Synonyms | Synonyms for Mournful: doleful | plaintive | sad | sorrowful Related Terms | Find terms related to Mournful: affecting | afflicted | afflictive | aggrieved | anguished | bitter | bleak | blue | calamitous | careworn | catastrophic | cheerless | cinerary | comfortless | complaining | deplorable | depressing | depressive | desolate | despairing | despondent | dirgelike | disastrous | discomforting | disconsolate | disheartening | dismal | dismaying | dispirited | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | downhearted | dreary | dumb with grief | epitaphic | exequial | faultfinding | feral | forlorn | fretful | funebrial | funebrious | funebrous | funeral | funerary | funereal | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | grievous | heartbroken | heartsick | howling | in grief | inconsolable | Jeremianic | joyless | lamentable | lamentive | lugubrious | melancholy | moanful | mortuary | moving | necrological | obituary | obsequial | overcome | painful | pathetic | peevish | petulant | piteous | pitiable | plaintive | plangent | plunged in grief | poignant | prostrate | puling | querulous | regrettable | rueful | sad | saddening | sepulchral | sharp | sore | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | tearful | touching | tragic | ululant | uncomfortable | unhappy | upsetting | wailful | whimpering | whining | whiny | woebegone | woeful | wretched See Also | Mournful In Webster's Dictionary \Mourn"ful\, a.
Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow;
mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening;
grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.
-- {Mourn"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Mourn"ful*ness}, n.
Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive;
grievous; calamitous.
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