| 单词 | mournful |
| 释义 | mournful (once / 460 pages) adj A mournful person is someone who is full of sorrow, like a little girl who has just lost her new puppy. Mournful is a word that is often associated with someone who has experienced the death of someone close to them. A person would feel mournful if their loved one had just died. Mournful can also describe the expression of sad feelings, like a person dressed in black and sobbing into a handkerchief. You would not be mournful if you had just failed a quiz, but you would be mournful if your twenty-year marriage had just failed. WORD FAMILYmournful: mournfulest, mournfully, mournfulness+/mourn: mourned, mourner, mournful, mourning, mourns/mourned: unmourned/mourner: mourners/mourning: mourningly, mournings USAGE EXAMPLES“I would like to get the frog off the hate database,” Furie said, in perhaps the most mournful quotation of the year. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) But his commercial instincts and pop craftsmanship were still in evidence, from the Beatles-esque harmonies of Heal The Pain to the mournful Praying For Time. BBC(Dec 26, 2016) Russia observed a national day of mourning on Monday, with the main government television channels repeatedly playing mournful music and eulogizing those killed. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1adj expressing sorrow Syn plaintive sorrowful experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss 2adj filled with or evoking sadness stared with mournful eyes mournful news Syn doleful sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness |
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