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单词 mournfully
释义

mournful

adjective

mourn·​ful ˈmȯrn-fəl How to pronounce mournful (audio)
1
: expressing sorrow : sorrowful
2
: full of sorrow : sad
3
: causing sorrow or melancholy : gloomy
mournfully
ˈmȯrn-fə-lē How to pronounce mournful (audio)
adverb
mournfulness noun

Synonyms

  • aching
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitter
  • deploring
  • doleful
  • dolesome
  • dolorous
  • funeral
  • grieving
  • heartbroken
  • lamentable
  • lugubrious
  • plaintive
  • plangent
  • regretful
  • rueful
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • woeful
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Example Sentences

she had such a mournful expression that someone teasingly asked if her dog had died the mournful survivors of the disaster were faced with the grim task of burying the dead
Recent Examples on the Web The next morning, his signature patter is mournful but insistent. Michelle Nijhuis, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2022 For instance, the shows often use cartoon graphics, elaborate background sets and sound effects -- such as mournful music that plays while defectors recall their past. Jessie Yeung And Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022 Rimes’ vocal rendering is introspectively restrained, mournful yet centered. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2022 One reads into his neutral expression Milky’s mournful contemplation of doom — mirrored, too, in the cow’s big, glistening eyes, made out of a foam that has been painted with a clear resin. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022 Anhedönia’s music has frequently been compared to Lana Del Rey’s, and the similarities are evident: the reedy, mournful vocals; the meandering song structures; the tales of seedy corners of American life. Liam Hess, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2022 Beyond the August days blazing over the sea, the sprawling old summer places, which tend to be stretched out on a north–south axis to maximize sunrise and sunset, take on a mournful, translucid quality. Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022 Individual components are rich: photographic images suggest extraterrestrial forms; the texts are samples of Weston’s intensely mournful poetry, the benches and glass evoke modernist architecture. New York Times, 23 June 2022 Sites that have fallen victim to time compel a certain mournful fascination. Elizabeth Lowry, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

mournful

adjective

mourn·​ful ˈmȯrn-fəl How to pronounce mournful (audio)
1
: full of sorrow or sadness
a mournful face
2
: causing sorrow
mournful news

mournfully

adverb

as in sorrowfully
with feelings of bitterness or grief cried out mournfully for the son who would never return home from the war

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • sorrowfully
  • bitterly
  • sadly
  • dolefully
  • painfully
  • plaintively
  • ruefully
  • lugubriously
  • regretfully
  • resentfully
  • unhappily
  • dolorously
  • sharply
  • inconsolably
  • harshly
  • hard
  • woefully
  • agonizingly
  • grievously
  • wailfully
  • wretchedly
  • dejectedly
  • despairingly
  • despondently
  • disconsolately
  • forlornly
  • morosely
  • sorely
  • glumly
  • dispiritedly
  • somberly
  • gloomily
  • severely
  • sullenly
  • cheerlessly
  • distressfully
  • abjectly
  • darkly
  • drearily
  • dismally
  • miserably
  • dourly
  • joylessly
  • mirthlessly
  • pessimistically
  • poignantly
  • hardly
  • blackly
  • piercingly
  • distressingly
  • cruelly
  • keenly
  • acutely
  • downheartedly
  • hurtfully
  • ill
  • rancorously
  • crestfallenly
  • low-spiritedly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • joyfully
  • joyously
  • happily
  • cheerfully
  • cheerily
  • blissfully
  • merrily
  • gaily
  • gleefully
  • gladly
  • delightedly
  • gayly
  • sunnily
  • mirthfully
  • rejoicingly
  • lightheartedly
  • impassively
  • calmly
  • unconcernedly
  • stoically
  • indifferently
  • nonchalantly
  • blithely
  • casually
  • dispassionately
  • lightly
  • easily
  • good-naturedly
  • favorably
  • well
  • blithesomely
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