mournful Definition
mourn·ful (môrn′fəl)
adjective
- of or characterized by mourning; feeling or expressing grief or sorrow
- causing sorrow or depression; melancholy
- having a sound, appearance, etc. that suggests sadness
mournful Related Forms
mourn′·fully adverb
mourn′·ful·ness noun
mournful Synonyms
mournful
modif.
mournful Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- cry: Their mournful cries are reminders of their partial exile.
- tone: No sounds but the humming insects and the distant mournful tones of the muffled bells.
- vocal: Fanfarlo take all of these and deliver them back with clean mournful vocals, brilliant melodies and sparks of joy.
- tune: Concluding track Take Comfort From Me is a mournful tune with violin adding an intense atmosphere to the song's opening segment.
- song: The wind echoed a mournful song through the barren trees.
- eye: The dog's mournful eyes passed from one of us to the other.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: A plaintive, piping trill with the rather mournful qualities of a diver echoed across the still water.
- so: And you'll tell us why you were so mournful upstairs.
- slightly: I think that hearing that slightly mournful guitar motif got him thinking about Syd.
- little: It is true that our surroundings were a little mournful, perhaps unnaturally so to those habitual shoppers.
- very: Our waiter was the only unwelcoming Lebanese person I had ever met and seemed very mournful and depressed.
- suitably: You find a suitably mournful melodic idea, then you repeat it.
Used with adjective complement
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