mournful
adjective
feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad.
mournfulness
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a word derived from
mournful.
Example Sentences
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These materialize in ways that lend unexpected mournfulness to some figures and, to others, a squeamishness that’ll make your skin crawl.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
Part gothic horror fable and part political parable, director Pablo Larraín’s new “El Conde” is a story told with imagination, anger and mournfulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
In a plaintive tweet that scored high on the mournfulness scale, the team said “it once was a bright, bright sunshiny day . . . ”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2022
There’s a surprising amount of death in Horizon Zero Dawn, not just NPCs but friends, allies and family, and a deeper mournfulness as you piece through the wreckage of human society.
From The Verge ● Dec. 14, 2020
“But that part must not have worked so well. They all still suffer from that pesky ‘chronic mournfulness effect.’”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
