mournful in English

adjective

1

feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.

the third boy stared fixedly at me with mournful, basset-hound eyes

synonyms: sad, sorrowful, doleful, melancholy, melancholic, woeful, grief-stricken, miserable, unhappy, heartbroken, broken-hearted, gloomy, dismal, desolate, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, disconsolate, woebegone, forlorn, rueful, lugubrious, joyless, cheerless, dolorous

adjective

sad, sorrowful, doleful, melancholy, melancholic, woeful, grief-stricken, miserable, unhappy, heartbroken, broken-hearted, gloomy, dismal, desolate, dejected, despondent, depressed, downcast, disconsolate, woebegone, forlorn, rueful, lugubrious, joyless, cheerless, dolorous
plaintive
doleful

Use "mournful" in a sentence

1. She sighed and looked mournful.

2. Durant was thin, mournful and silent.

3. The dog gave a mournful howl.

4. Mind out! elegy A mournful poem.

5. I wish you'd stop playing that mournful music.

6. Mournful that no new wonder may betide.

7. He looked mournful, even near to tears.

8. I could hear the slow, mournful music of the bagpipes.

9. And their public comments had a mournful tone.

10. I couldn't bear the mournful look on her face.

11. The mournful litany of disease is caused by sewage.

12. He was at the graveside looking mournful and interesting.

13. His habitual London expression, cagey and mournful, was never to be seen.

14. While mournful music poured out from loudspeakers, Jean-Claude hummed.

15. His voice sounded so mournful that tears came into her eyes.

16. The sonnet is an emotional elegy, and the tone is mournful.

17. The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.

18. Mournful Aegises are giant suits of armor animated by powerful Yokudan magic

19. I brought grim news, and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure.

20. The crowd accompanying her may have included additional mourners chanting lamentations and musicians playing mournful tunes.

21. I imagined him pulling mournful drones out of the ancient double-reed pipe.

22. Larger Aegises will split smaller Mournful Aegises off of them when low on health.

23. You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.

24. Mandeville's curses rang out interspersed by the awful, mournful sounds of the dead man's brother.

25. Synonyms for Bewailing include sorrowful, mournful, woeful, anguished, doleful, heartbroken, rueful, agonised, agonized and dolorous

26. Synonyms for Bemoaning include sorrowful, mournful, woeful, anguished, doleful, heartbroken, rueful, agonised, agonized and dolorous

27. The mournful Cooing of the Mourning Dove is one of our most familiar bird sounds

28. 21 These deep colours have an oppressiveness which is neither cloying nor mournful but richly potent.

29. He continued to watch as Gentle got up, his face betraying a mournful empathy with Gentle's bruising.

30. As the creatures soared up and down, their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone.

31. Guided by a mournful bleating, he came across several groups of sheep, huddled together in the vain hope of safety.

32. 7 As the creatures soared up and down,[www.Sentencedict.com] their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone.

33. And it only needed the habitually mournful expression of one of the dogs to deepen a little and I was round there posthaste.

34. These days, the earth bakes beneath the cloudless midday sky, and the vegetation on the mountainsides turns a mournful brown.

35. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry , the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

36. With her long hair drooping round her face and her large, mournful eyes, she looked like a lost basset-hound puppy.

37. • It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and Acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy

38. Beneath her the river snaked silver amongst the rushes and meadowsweet and a buzzard circling on high gave its own mournful cry.

39. Signs of approaching death are evident from the mournful tones and groans of complaint issuing forth from the doors of the oldster’s mouth.

40. It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy.

41. Recent Examples on the Web Taps was played by a Bugler in the Red Arrow veterans group, who pulled his mask down to sound the mournful salute

42. Instead of the mournful tone of a howl, Baying involves a continuously long collection of short enthusiastic bursts of sound unique to hound breeds

43. Amid this mournful din — and in the various, anticlimactic Clatterings of resurrection that followed — one trademark voice was perhaps assumed silenced forever: Will “The Thrill” Viharo…

44. How many other girlfriends, counselors, taxi drivers, and random airplane passengers had Boris seduced into intimacy with the mournful ballad of his achy-breaky reproductive apparatus?

45. The way in which Bereft differs just from plain mournful or grief-stricken is in its sense of deprivation or lack. It can be used that way too, …

46. Still, this is an Appreciably mournful entry in the Pixar canon, and the studio’s usual talents—boundary-pushing animation, solid voice work, and a dollop of imaginative thinking—are here

47. Bassets are famous for a large, domed head that features extremely long, velvety ears, mournful eyes, and a wrinkled brow, which give the breed the look of a sad clown

48. (Matthew 20:22, King James Version) As predicted at Revelation 11:3, the 1,260-day period that ensued was a mournful time for the anointed—it was as if they were prophesying in sackcloth.

49. This may be due to the casting of Kikuchi – the poster girl for troubled Japanese youth following her performance in Babel (200 – but the lengthy sanatorium scenes are mournful rather than moving.

50. 'Alarum is a collection composed in the "mournful shadows", skulking beneath your window at that very hour of a sleepless night when you feel most alone, to deliver up to …