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.

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mournful·ly adv.

mournful·ness n.

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mournful [ˈmɔːnfʊl]

adj

1. evoking grief; sorrowful

2. gloomy; sad

mournfully  adv

mournfulness  n

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

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