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词汇 mournful
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Definition of mournful in English:

mournful

adjective ˈmɔːnfʊlˈmɔːnf(ə)lˈmɔrnfəl
  • Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief.

    (使)忧伤的;(使)悲痛的;(使)遗憾的

    her large, mournful eyes

    她哀伤的大眼睛。

    mournful music
    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

Derivatives

  • mournfully

  • adverb 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.
  • mournfulness

  • 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:

mournful

adjectiveˈmɔrnfəlˈmôrnfəl
  • 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
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