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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mournful \Mourn"ful\, adjective 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}, adverb -- {Mourn"ful*ness}, noun
Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mournful
adjective
1: expressing sorrow [syn: {plaintive}]
2: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news" [syn: {doleful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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