Mournful

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  • adjective. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
  • adjective. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Sorrowful; oppressed with grief.
  • Denoting or expressing mourning or sorrow; exhibiting the appearance of grief: as, mournful music; a mournful aspect.
  • Causing sorrow; deplorable; doleful: as, a mournful death.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. filled with or evoking sadness
  • adjective. expressing sorrow
    • Word Usage
    "They describe in mournful tones the image of the lonely CEO sitting in his office late at night filling out government forms."
    cross-reference
    lamentable  
    Equivalent
    sad  sorrowful  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    scornful  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dismal  gentle  joyous  monotonous  ominous  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Jeremianic  affecting  afflicted  afflictive  afflictive  
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