Meanings
comparative mournfuller · comparative more mournful · superlative mournfullest · superlative most mournful · alternative mournfull
- Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Synonyms: miserable, sorrowful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out
- Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.
1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of UsherSynonyms: pitiful, rueful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, deplorable, depressing, distressing, grievous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveFilled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
adjectiveFit to inspire mourning; tragic.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian тъжен, печален
- тъжен (tăžen)filled with grief or sadness
- печален (pečalen)filled with grief or sadness
Catalan planyívol
- planyívolfilled with grief or sadness
Esperanto funebra
- funebrafilled with grief or sadness
French affligé, éploré
- affligéfilled with grief or sadness
- éploréfilled with grief or sadness
- mélancoliquefilled with grief or sadness
- lugubrefilled with grief or sadness
- funèbrefilled with grief or sadness
- mornefilled with grief or sadness
- chagrinfilled with grief or sadness
Greek πένθιμος
- πένθιμος (pénthimos)filled with grief or sadness
Italian lamentoso
- lamentosofilled with grief or sadness
Latin funestus
- funestusfilled with grief or sadness
Māori taukiri, tīkapa
- taukirifilled with grief or sadness
- tīkapafilled with grief or sadness
- whakahiatangifilled with grief or sadness
Portuguese pesaroso
- pesarosofilled with grief or sadness
Russian скорбный, печа́льный
- скорбный (skorbnyj)filled with grief or sadness
- печа́льный (pečálʹnyj)filled with grief or sadness
- заунывный (zaunyvnyj)filled with grief or sadness
Scottish Gaelic brònach
- brònachfilled with grief or sadness
Spanish melancólico, lastimero
- melancólicofilled with grief or sadness
- lastimerofilled with grief or sadness
- lutosofilled with grief or sadness
- luctuosofilled with grief or sadness
Turkish kederli, hüzünlü
- kederlifilled with grief or sadness
- hüzünlüfilled with grief or sadness
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with mournful
All rhymes →Cite this entry
mournful. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mournful
“mournful.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mournful. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mournful,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mournful.
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