Word Meanings - MOURNFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
Additional info about word: MOURNFUL
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. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOURNFUL)
- Dark
- Black
- dusky
- sable
- swarthy
- opaque
- obscure
- enigmatical
- recondite
- abstruse
- unintelligible
- blind
- ignorant
- besotted
- benighted
- dim
- shadowy
- inexplicable
- secret
- mysterious
- hidden
- murky
- nebulous
- cheerless
- dismal
- gloomy
- sombre
- joyless
- mournful
- sorrowful
- Funereal
- Lugubrious
- woeful
- plaintive
- deathlike
- solemn
- Penitential
- Wailing
- dirgeful
- contrite
- penitent
- Piteous
- Sad
- miserable
- deplorable
- lamentable
- distressing
- doleful
- pitiable
- woful
- affecting
- Plaintive
- Mournful
- sad
- melancholy
- wailing
- touching
- moaning
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MOURNFUL)
Related words: (words related to MOURNFUL)
- DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - SOLEMNIZATION
The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. - OPAQUENESS
The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - SOLEMNIZE
1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - INEXPLICABLE
Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others - MOURNFUL
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. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful; - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - MISERABLENESS
The state or quality of being miserable. - BESOTTINGLY
In a besotting manner. - SOLEMN
Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious; - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - PLAINTIVE
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - GLOOMY
1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - REPLEVISABLE
Repleviable. Sir M. Hale. - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - INDISPENSABLENESS
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke. - CLEANSABLE
Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood. - IMPOSABLE
Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond. - ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - DISPENSABLE
1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge. - BEWAIL
To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.