mournful English

Meaning mournful meaning

What does mournful mean?

mournful

— adjective expressing sorrow

— adjective (= doleful) filled with or evoking sadness the child's doleful expression stared with mournful eyes mournful news

Synonyms mournful synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as mournful?

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sad

sorrowful

plaintive

doleful

gloomy

melancholy

lugubrious

grievous

dismal

woeful

lamentable

depressed

woebegone

pitiful

downcast

dispirited

cheerless

wailful

tragic

sorrowing

sombre

somber

regretful

pathetic

mourning

melancholic

lachrymose

grieving

gaunt

funereal

elegiac

dreary

downhearted

down

dolourous

dolorous

desolate

wistful

weeping

utterly tragic

urgent

unhappy

unconsolable

tragical

tender

tearful

sympathetic

surprise

sullen

sorry

Topics mournful topics

What do people use mournful to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad

• What words describe someone who feels sad?
  sad crestfallen dejected disappointed discouraged doleful down downcast downhearted fed up forlorn gloomy glum grouchy grumpy with a heavy heart homesick low melancholy morose mournful pensive sober (adj) solemn sorry sorrowful sullen unhappy wistful woeful
• What words describe something that causes someone to feel sad?
  sad depressing grievous heartbreaking plaintive mournful tragic