Mourn"ful*ness

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
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "mournfulness":
      aggrievedness, bitterness, bleakness, cheerlessness,
      comfortlessness, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress,
      distressfulness, dolorousness, dreariness, funerealness, grief,
      grievousness, joylessness, lamentability, lamentation,
      lugubriousness, pain, painfulness, pathos, pitiability,
      pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, plangency, poignancy,
      regrettableness, ruefulness, sadness, sharpness, sorrowfulness,
      tearfulness, woebegoneness, woefulness
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