mournful
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Webster]
Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive;
grievous; calamitous.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "mournful":
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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