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Plaintive :: Plaintive (n.) Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.

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

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

Plaint :: Plaint (n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Sorry :: Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

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

Banshie :: Banshie (n.) A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house..

Bitter :: Bitter (v. t.) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.

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

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

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

Yowl :: Yowl (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl..

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

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