Mournful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
  • adj. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy: the mournful sound of a train whistle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sorrowful; oppressed with grief.
  • Denoting or expressing mourning or sorrow; exhibiting the appearance of grief: as, mournful music; a mournful aspect.
  • Causing sorrow; deplorable; doleful: as, a mournful death.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. filled with or evoking sadness
  • adj. expressing sorrow
  • Equivalent
    sad    sorrowful   
    Cross Reference
    lamentable   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    calamitous    doleful    sad    grievous    lugubrious    afflictive    heavy    sorrowful    mourning    grieving   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    scornful   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sad    sorrowful    plaintive    dismal    ominous    monotonous    sombre    pitiful    gentle    joyous