Definition of mournful

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Mournful (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..

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Black :: Black (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible..
Lacrimoso :: Lacrimoso (a.) Plaintive; -- a term applied to a mournful or pathetic movement or style.
Plaint :: Plaint (n.) Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament..
Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
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 (v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell..
Sorry :: Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
Lugubrious :: Lugubrious (a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look..
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..
Wail :: Wail (v. i.) To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep.
Yowl :: Yowl (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl..
Groan :: Groan (n.) A low, moaning sound; usually, a deep, mournful sound uttered in pain or great distress; sometimes, an expression of strong disapprobation; as, the remark was received with groans..
Monody :: Monody (n.) A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice..
Rueful :: Rueful (a.) Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.
Sigh-born :: Sigh-born (a.) Sorrowful; mournful.
Dernly :: Dernly (adv.) Secretly; grievously; mournfully.
Sorrowful :: Sorrowful (a.) Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident..
Wailful :: Wailful (a.) Sorrowful; mournful.
Tragical :: Tragical (a.) Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow..
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