mournful

mournful
Synonyms and related words:
Jeremianic, 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, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, heartbroken, heartsick, howling, in grief, inconsolable, 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

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  • Mournful — 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. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • mournful — index despondent, disconsolate, lamentable, lugubrious, querulous, solemn Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • mournful — (adj.) early 15c., from MOURN (Cf. mourn) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Mournfully; mournfulness …   Etymology dictionary

  • mournful — [adj] sorrowful anguished, bereft, cheerless, depressed, disconsolate, distressing, doleful, dolent, forlorn, full of sorrow, griefstricken, grieving, grievous, heartbroken, in mourning, in pain, in sorrow, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sombre,… …   New thesaurus

  • mournful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ feeling, showing, or causing sadness or grief. DERIVATIVES mournfully adverb mournfulness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • mournful — [môrn′fəl] adj. 1. of or characterized by mourning; feeling or expressing grief or sorrow 2. causing sorrow or depression; melancholy 3. having a sound, appearance, etc. that suggests sadness mournfully adv. mournfulness n …   English World dictionary

  • mournful — [[t]mɔ͟ː(r)nfʊl[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you are mournful, you are very sad. He looked mournful, even near to tears... Miss Dickerman was tall and somewhat mournful looking. Syn: sorrowful Derived words: mournfully ADV GRADED usu ADV with …   English dictionary

  • mournful — mournfully, adv. mournfulness, n. /mawrn feuhl, mohrn /, adj. 1. feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad. 2. of or pertaining to mourning for the dead. 3. causing grief or lament: a mournful occasion. 4. gloomy, somber, or dreary,… …   Universalium

  • mournful — mourn|ful [ˈmo:nfəl US ˈmo:rn ] adj very sad ▪ Durant was thin, mournful and silent. ▪ the slow, mournful music of the bagpipes >mournfully adv …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • mournful — adjective very sad: Durant was thin, mournful and silent. | the slow, mournful music of the bagpipes mournfully adjective mournfulness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • mournful — /ˈmɔnfəl / (say mawnfuhl) adjective 1. full of, expressing, or showing sorrow or grief, as persons, the tone, etc.; sorrowful; sad. 2. expressing, or used in, mourning for the dead. 3. causing, or attended with, sorrow or mourning: a mournful… …  

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