mournful

mourn·ful (môrn

l, m

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 [ˈmɔːnfʊl]

adj

1. evoking grief; sorrowful

2. gloomy; sad

mournfully adv

mournfulness n

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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 He looked mournful, even near to tears.
dismal happy, bright, sunny, cheerful, jolly, upbeat (informal), joyful, genial, chirpy (informal), light-hearted

2. sad, distressing, unhappy, tragic, painful, afflicting, melancholy, harrowing, grievous, woeful, deplorable, lamentable, plaintive, calamitous, sorrowful, piteous the mournful wail of bagpipes
sad happy, pleasant, cheerful, agreeable

Translations

mournful [ˈmɔːnfʊl] ADJ [person] → afligido; [tone, sound] → triste, lúgubre; [occasion] → triste, luctuoso

mournful [ˈmɔː^rnf^əl] adj → triste, lugubre

mournful

adj (= sad) person, occasion, atmosphere, look → traurig, trauervoll; person (as character trait), voice → weinerlich; sigh, appearance → kläglich, jämmerlich; sound, cry → klagend

mournful [ˈmɔːnfʊl] adj (person) → triste, malinconico/a; (tone, sound) → lugubre, funereo

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broken-hearted
dirge
Dirgeful
doleful
elegiac
elegy
funereal
lachrymose
Lacrimoso
lamentable
lugubrious
melancholy
mournful widow
mourning dove
pincushion flower
plaintive
plangent
Scabiosa atropurpurea
sweet scabious

There is infinite variety in the gales of wind at sea, and except for the peculiar, terrible, and mysterious moaning that may be heard sometimes passing through the roar of a hurricane - except for that unforgettable sound, as if the soul of the universe had been goaded into a mournful groan - it is, after all, the human voice that stamps the mark of human consciousness upon the character of a gale.

The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context

The old sword-bearer's face, the worn-out and mournful face so covered with wrinkles that it seemed to look out through the meshes of a fine dark net, could be seen close above his shoulders.

Tales of Unrest by Conrad, Joseph View in context

If you ask me, I say this piece is as good as that one o' his, `Tell me not in mournful numbers;' and consid'able clearer.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context

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