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Wofully :: Wofully (adv.) In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..

Mourn :: Mourn (v. t.) To utter in a mournful manner or voice.

Dirge :: Dirge (a.) A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn..

Funereal :: Funereal (a.) Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.

Lament :: Lament (v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like..

Tragical :: Tragical (a.) Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution..

Tone :: Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone..

Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..

Chirm :: Chirm (v. i.) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird..

Howl :: Howl (n.) The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound..

Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.

Tragedy :: Tragedy (n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence..

Planxty :: Planxty (n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character..

Wailful :: Wailful (a.) Sorrowful; mournful.

Sustenance :: Sustaltic (a.) Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks.

Tune :: Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air..

Rueful :: Rueful (a.) Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

Howl :: Howl (v. i.) To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do..

Dernful :: Dernful (a.) Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful..

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