mourn
Plural: mourns
Verb
Verb Forms: mourned, mourning, mourns
- To feel or express deep sadness or grief.
- feel sadness
- "She is mourning her dead child"
- observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
- To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- To wear mourning.
Noun
- Sorrow, grief.
- A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Examples
- He began to mourn his lost opportunity after failing to spot the triple-word play.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Synonyms
aggrieve, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, blueness, blues, condole, crestfallenness, dejection, deplore, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, engrieve, erme, forlornness, gloom, grief, grieve, grieven, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, keen, lament, mean, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, moan, mourn, pine, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sigh, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, wail, wayment, weep, woe, woefare, wretchedness, yearn
Scrabble Score: 7
mourn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmourn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mourn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary