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单词 mournful
释义

mournful

/ˈmɔːnfʊl / /ˈmɔːnf(ə)l/
adjective
Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief: her large, mournful eyes mournful music...
  • Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious.
  • He came over and sat by my chair, a look of mournful regret on his open honest little face.
  • Everett had a very deep bass voice that sounded perpetually gloomy and mournful when a person wasn't used to him.

Synonyms

sad, sorrowful, sorrowing, doleful, melancholy, melancholic, woeful, grief-stricken, miserable, unhappy, heartbroken, broken-hearted, heavy-hearted, gloomy, dismal, tragic, desolate, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, disconsolate, woebegone, forlorn, rueful, lugubrious, sombre, joyless, cheerless, mirthless;
funereal, elegiac, plaintive, plangent, dirge-like
rare threnodic
literary heartsick, dolorous

Derivatives

mournfully

/ˈmɔːnfʊli / /ˈmɔːnf(ə)li / adverb ...
  • Writing about his own visit to southern Italy, he dwells mournfully on grubby children and cackling poultry.
  • She mournfully flicks through the faded family album as the bustling, chattering family next door noisily go about family life.
  • On Tuesday he reflected mournfully on politicians who ‘made promises they have failed to keep’.

mournfulness

/ˈmɔːnfʊlnəs / /ˈmɔːnf(ə)lnəs / noun ...
  • If you listen to Bach's ‘St. Matthew Passion,’ there is very little violence in the music; the overwhelming tone is one of mournfulness and sorrow.
  • ‘Yes, I do,’ she answered, with a note of mournfulness.
  • The score, by Zbigniew Preisner, suffuses the film with mournfulness.
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