mournful
Syllables: mourn·fulUK/ˈmɔːnfəl//ˈmɔɹnfəl/
mournful adjective: filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Adjective
mournful (comparative mournfuller or more mournful, superlative mournfullest or most mournful)
- Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
- Synonyms:
- miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless
- Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
- Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
- Synonyms:
- pitiful, rueful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, deplorable, depressing, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending
mournful meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
mournful in Hindi
- mournful
- शोकमय śokmay
mournful in Urdu
- اندوہ گیں, غمزدہ, پرملال
mournful in Bengali
- শোকার্ত, বিষণ্ণ, শোকাতুর, করুণ, দুঃখপূর্ণ
mournful in Malayalam
- doleful, sad, sorrowful
- ദുഃഖിക്കുന്ന, സങ്കടമുള്ള, ദുഃഖപൂർണ്ണമായ, ദീന, ദുഃഖ, ദുഖിത
Examples of mournful in a sentence
- They heard a noise of mournful mewing, and looked down at the cats in the river below.
- This mournful melody from Queensland tells of the woes and misfortunes of early canecutters.
- The wind through the trees made a mournful noise, like some great giant sighing.
Synonyms of mournful
- miserable
- sorrowful
- atrabiliary
- atrabilious
- blitheless
- dispirited
- blue
- bummed out
- chapfallen
- cheerless
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Forms of mournful
| comparative | mournfuller |
|---|---|
| comparative | more mournful |
| superlative | mournfullest |
| superlative | most mournful |
| alternative form | mournfull |
Origin of mournful
From mourn + -ful.
Words formed from mournful
Words that rhyme with mournful
Questions about mournful
- What does mournful mean?
- Mournful means filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
- What is mournful in Hindi?
- Mournful in Hindi is शोकमय (śokmay). See Mournful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mournful?
- Mournful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce mournful?
- Mournful is pronounced /ˈmɔɹnfəl/ (US).
Words near mournful in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mournful (page history and authors); शोकमय (Hindi) (page history and authors); mournful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mournful (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mournful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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