Mournful - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈmɔːrnfl|  American pronunciation of the word mournful
Brit.  |ˈmɔːnfʊl|  British pronunciation of the word mournful

adjective

- expressing sorrow (syn: plaintive)
- filled with or evoking sadness (syn: doleful)
stared with mournful eyes
mournful news

Extra examples

...she had such a mournful expression that someone teasingly asked if her dog had died...

...the mournful survivors of the disaster were faced with the grim task of burying the dead...

Durant was thin, mournful and silent.

Left alone for a moment, he feels mournful, bereft—and then panicky, when he thinks he has been deserted again.

...wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death...

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