mournful

mourn·ful  (môrnfl, mrn-)

adj.

1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.

2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy: the mournful sound of a train whistle.

---

mournful·ly adv.

mournful·ness n.

---

mournful

Adjective

1. feeling or expressing grief and sadness: he stood by, a mournful expression on his face

2. (of a sound) suggestive or reminiscent of grief or sadness: the locomotive gave a mournful bellow

mournfully adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	mournful - expressing sorrow plaintive sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
	2.	mournful - filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news" doleful sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

---

mournful

adjective 1. dismal, sad, unhappy, miserable, gloomy, grieving, melancholy, sombre, heartbroken, desolate, woeful, rueful, heavy, downcast, grief-stricken, lugubrious, disconsolate, joyless, funereal, heavy-hearted, down in the dumps (informal) cheerless, brokenhearted << OPPOSITE happy

adjective 2. sad, distressing, unhappy, tragic, painful, afflicting, melancholy, harrowing, grievous, woeful, deplorable, lamentable, plaintive, calamitous, sorrowful, piteous << OPPOSITE cheerful

Translations

mournful [ˈmɔːnful] adj → triste, lúgubre

mournful [ˈmɔːnful] adj → triste, lugubre

mournful [ˈmɔːnful] mourn adj → traurig