'Mournful' definitions:
Definition of 'mournful'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Mournful'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'mournful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Jeremianic,
- 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