mournful

Adjective Satellite

• expressing sorrow
• filled with or evoking sadness
  • "stared with mournful eyes"
  • "mournful news"

Adj

• Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
• Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.

Adjective

• Expressing or feeling deep sorrow or sadness.

Examples

• His mournful sigh after challenging a valid word was audible across the room.

Synonyms

doleful, plaintive, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, distressing, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lamentable, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, querulous, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, tragic, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, upsetting, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Anagrams of mournful