MOURNFUL - 10 definitions found
mournful 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 Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) mournful adjective Date: 15th century 1. expressing sorrow ; sorrowful 2. full of sorrow ; sad 3. causing sorrow or melancholy ; gloomy • mournfully adverb • mournfulness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary mournful 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 English Explanatory Dictionary mournful ˈmɔ:nful adj. 1 doleful, sad, sorrowing. 2 expressing or suggestive of mourning. øømournfully adv. mournfulness n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms mournful 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. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) mournful ˈmɔ:nful adj. 1 sad, sorrowful, dismal, melancholy, blue, afflicted, doleful, dolorous, grief-stricken, rueful, forlorn, woebegone, sombre, lugubrious, funereal, joyless, dispirited, cheerless, unhappy, downhearted, heavy-hearted, disconsolate, heartbroken, inconsolable, despondent, desolate, despairing, heartsick, overcome, prostrate: The mournful crowd filed past the bier to pay their last respects. 2 deplorable, sorrowful, grievous, distressing, upsetting, tragic, saddening, disheartening, depressing, lamentable, catastrophic, calamitous, disastrous: The mournful news of the great loss of life in the explosion was broadcast round the world. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 109 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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