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Mournful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOURNFUL, a. Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief, as a mournful bell; mournful music.
No funeral rites nor man in mournful weeds.
1. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as a mournful death.
2. Sorrowful; feeling grief.
The mournful fair--
Shall visit her distinguished urn.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: expressing sorrow [syn: mournful, plaintive]
2: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news" [syn: doleful, mournful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. expressing sorrow ; sorrowful 2. full of sorrow ; sad 3. causing sorrow or melancholy ; gloomy • mournfully adverb • mournfulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 doleful, sad, sorrowing. 2 expressing or suggestive of mourning. Derivatives: mournfully adv. mournfulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you are mournful, you are very sad. He looked mournful, even near to tears... ADJ • mournfully He stood mournfully at the gate waving bye bye. ADV: usu ADV with v 2. A mournful sound seems very sad. ...the mournful wail of bagpipes. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Sad, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, grievous, calamitous, lamentable, melancholy, deplorable, woful. 2. Sad, melancholy, lugubrious, doleful, sorrowful, heavy. 3. Sorrowful, sad, unhappy, melancholy, heavy-hearted.

Moby Thesaurus

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