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mournsome

mournsome adjective: characterised or marked by mourning; mournful.

Adjective

mournsome (comparative more mournsome, superlative most mournsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by mourning; mournful.
    • Then there came a mellow noise, very low and mournsome, not a sound to be afraid of, but to long to know the meaning, with a soft rise of the hair.1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
    • I become the wind. I wind and wend my mournsome way, I thread the trees with keening.2002, Pat Stewart, Bill Laforme, Key Light

Forms of mournsome

comparativemore mournsome
superlativemost mournsome

Origin of mournsome

From mourn + -some.

Questions about mournsome

What does mournsome mean?
Mournsome means characterised or marked by mourning; mournful.
What part of speech is mournsome?
Mournsome is an adjective.

Words near mournsome in the dictionary

  1. mourningly
  2. mournings
  3. mournival
  4. mournivals
  5. mourns
  6. mournsome
  7. Mourquong
  8. Mourvèdre
  9. Mourvèdres
  10. mourza
  11. MOUs

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