'Mournfulness' definitions:
Definition of 'mournfulness'
From: WordNet
noun
A state of gloomy sorrow [syn: mournfulness, sorrowfulness, ruthfulness]
Definition of 'Mournfulness'
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 'mournfulness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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