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Definition of mournful in English: mournfuladjective ˈmɔːnfʊlˈmɔːnf(ə)lˈmɔrnfəl Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief. (使)忧伤的;(使)悲痛的;(使)遗憾的 她哀伤的大眼睛。 Example sentencesExamples - He came over and sat by my chair, a look of mournful regret on his open honest little face.
- Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious.
- A voiceover started up, relaying a message of mournful defiance - I have completely forgotten what it said.
- Number Two Court may be colloquially known as the graveyard of champions but the mournful mood was only allowed to descend when football was mentioned.
- I woke up when I heard the mournful cry of a harpooned whale.
- Gradually throughout the 1920s the Anzac Day service became less and less akin to a mournful funeral.
- Perhaps it was the heat, the lack of dinner in my belly, or some deep animal instinct, but I suddenly felt the urge to tip my head back and howl like a mournful dog.
- Everett had a very deep bass voice that sounded perpetually gloomy and mournful when a person wasn't used to him.
- His reply was quite the most mournful plea for understanding I had ever heard in three decades of involvement in the crazy inexplicable world of racing.
- Quite obviously, there is a deeply mournful element to the novel.
- A single figure stepped toward the pyre and a mournful cry of loss and sorrow tore up into the night.
- ‘We're not going to be all mournful,’ her husband Rob said before the funeral.
- Fleet, meanwhile, has the resigned and mournful air of a dog who knows the precise trick his master requires him to perform in return for dinner.
- He wore sometimes a mournful look, at other times an almost blank expression as he followed his beloved grandmother.
- On a less mournful note he keeps pigs at his home in New England - just as the Prendergast family did when they lived in Fulford.
- The answer is emphatic, the expression on the face is mournful.
- I am sure Jimmy would not have wanted us to be mournful.
- The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.
- Ms. Kim plays a mournful noblewoman from Korea's Joseon Dynasty who later becomes a slave in China.
- Winter was over but there was room for a twinge of regret, it seemed to me, and a little mournful Polish fatalism.
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
Derivativesadverb ˈmɔːnf(ə)liˈmɔːnfʊliˈmɔrnfəli Writing about his own visit to southern Italy, he dwells mournfully on grubby children and cackling poultry. Example sentencesExamples - Each time a rocket exploded overhead, a dog howled mournfully from its pen at edge of the yard.
- On Tuesday he reflected mournfully on politicians who ‘made promises they have failed to keep’.
- Dressed in tatters and singing mournfully, she played the part of the hungry orphan to perfection.
- Annette sighed mournfully and shifted her weight.
- She mournfully flicks through the faded family album as the bustling, chattering family next door noisily go about family life.
noun ˈmɔːnfʊlnəsˈmɔːnf(ə)lnəsˈmɔrnfəlnəs ‘Yes, I do,’ she answered, with a note of mournfulness. Example sentencesExamples - He spins round and lifts the teapot with a smile, the mournfulness temporarily gone, trapped beneath a professional veneer.
- 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.
- The score, by Zbigniew Preisner, suffuses the film with mournfulness.
- Halet likes the song; there is something Turkish about its mournfulness.
- The second piece, marked Scherzo, intensifies the mournfulness into anguish and panic.
- There's a sombre mournfulness that suggests deep hurt and painful, reluctant acceptance.
Definition of mournful in US English: mournfuladjectiveˈmɔrnfəlˈmôrnfəl Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief. (使)忧伤的;(使)悲痛的;(使)遗憾的 the third boy stared fixedly at me with mournful, basset-hound eyes his voice on one track, mournful piano on another Example sentencesExamples - A single figure stepped toward the pyre and a mournful cry of loss and sorrow tore up into the night.
- A voiceover started up, relaying a message of mournful defiance - I have completely forgotten what it said.
- Number Two Court may be colloquially known as the graveyard of champions but the mournful mood was only allowed to descend when football was mentioned.
- He wore sometimes a mournful look, at other times an almost blank expression as he followed his beloved grandmother.
- The answer is emphatic, the expression on the face is mournful.
- The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.
- I am sure Jimmy would not have wanted us to be mournful.
- Ms. Kim plays a mournful noblewoman from Korea's Joseon Dynasty who later becomes a slave in China.
- Quite obviously, there is a deeply mournful element to the novel.
- ‘We're not going to be all mournful,’ her husband Rob said before the funeral.
- Fleet, meanwhile, has the resigned and mournful air of a dog who knows the precise trick his master requires him to perform in return for dinner.
- Winter was over but there was room for a twinge of regret, it seemed to me, and a little mournful Polish fatalism.
- I woke up when I heard the mournful cry of a harpooned whale.
- Perhaps it was the heat, the lack of dinner in my belly, or some deep animal instinct, but I suddenly felt the urge to tip my head back and howl like a mournful dog.
- His reply was quite the most mournful plea for understanding I had ever heard in three decades of involvement in the crazy inexplicable world of racing.
- Plunged headlong into joyful Christmas celebrations, Jack mooches around looking mournful and lugubrious.
- On a less mournful note he keeps pigs at his home in New England - just as the Prendergast family did when they lived in Fulford.
- Gradually throughout the 1920s the Anzac Day service became less and less akin to a mournful funeral.
- 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 |