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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous;

as, a

mournful

person;

mournful

looks, tones, loss.

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Mourn′ful-ly

adv.

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Mourn′ful-ness

Noun.

Syn. – Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous.

Adj.

Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief, as a mournful bell; mournful music.

No funeral rites nor man in mournful weeds.

Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as a mournful death.

Sorrowful; feeling grief.

The mournful fair--

Shall visit her distinguished urn.