mournful
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- expressing sorrow
- filled with or evoking sadness
- "stared with mournful eyes"
- "mournful news"
Adj
- Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
- Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
Origin / Etymology
From mourn + -ful.
Synonyms
atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, distressing, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lamentable, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, plaintive, querulous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, tragic, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, upsetting, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Scrabble Score: 13
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