Mournful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MOURNFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• sad, grieving
• feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief
• sad or dismal
• 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.
• expressing sorrow
• filled with or evoking sadness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• expressing grief or sorrow

Words related to MOURNFUL

lagrimoso12 mournfuller16 mournfullest17 mournfully18 mournfulness17

Words that contain MOURNFUL

mournfully18 mournfuller16 mournfullest17 mournfulness17 mournfulnesses19

How to use MOURNFUL in a sentence

• For across the wind with a diffused quality, a lack of direction, vibrated to them again the faint and mournful grief of a woman.
• The dog let out a great, mournful howl, and there was a horrible little silence, with everyone standing rigid.
• Then, whereas before they had been mournful, now they were joyful at having been made so rich with those precious things.
• In the pursuit of this phantom they learned the rather mournful fact that every such situation in the United States has from ten to a hundred applicants.
• It begins low and mournful, like the lament of the Swiss over their fallen liberties.
• Its supposed mournful notes alarmed the aged housekeeper.
• Your kind and affectionate attention throughout the whole of this mournful and trying scene cannot fail to meet my sincere and grateful thanks, and that of the whole family.
• But she heard only the mournful wail of the wind through the great trees, and the roar of the river rushing under the misty darkness.
• The slender thread of sound from the gas-burners seemed to be changed to low, mournful cries, as of a woman over the dead.
• He decided at last upon heart-disease, and a fort-night later all Ramsbury knew of the letter from Australia conveying the mournful intelligence.
• The death of his noble son and beautiful girl brought down his spirit to the most mournful depths of affliction.
• It was, however, on their part a distressing and mournful resolve.
• In a short time, also, the mournful sounds of the church-bell, in slow and measured strokes, gave additional notice that a Christian soul had passed into eternity.
• During the time that the ceremony lasted I, according to the native custom, preserved a grave and mournful expression of countenance.
• We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves.
• Now hath he bidden me Earnestly to urge thee to sail the sea When thou hast heard on the brow of the hill The mournful cuckoo call in the wood.
• Her eyes were mournful as they often were, but they were starry with a thought I could not read.
• For above the beat of the rain and the shrill whine of the wind came a strain of music, mournful, yet exquisitely beautiful.
• I stood alone until it was twilight, in a state of mournful suspense that I recall even now with anguish.
• Hence, when thoroughly imbued with this persuasion, I looked with mournful pity on a great mind wasting its energies on any distant aim of this earth.
• He saw the movement, and into his eyes flashed a look so mournful, so filled with longing that I was thrilled to the heart.
• The dying girl saw that mournful glance, and a gleam of intelligence passed over her beautiful features.
• We should have been mournful for old Worthyvale, but that night we knew only that it was good, being young, to have escaped death.

Similar words containing MOURN without suffix ful

mourn7 mourns8 mourned10 mourner9 mourners10 mourning11 mournings12 mournival14 unmourned12 mournfully18 mourningly16 mournivals15 mournfuller16 mournfullest17 mournfulness17 mournfulnesses19

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