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Source: 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.
-- {Mournful*ly}, adv. -- {Mournful*ness}, n.

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

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

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Source: moby thes
109 Moby Thesaurus words for "mournful":
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


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