Sometimes I ask myself what a raven, with its decisive final presence, and its mournful persistent color, may have to say to the aged mountains.
Source: tatoeba (1523215)
Mournful
//ˈmɔɹnfəl//
Synonyms for "mournful" (222 found)
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Closest matches (45)
Strong matches (66)
Adjective(27 words)
despondentdisconsolatedisgruntleddishearteneddismaldispiriteddistressingdolefuldolesomedowndown in the dumpsdown in the mouthdowncastdownhearteddownsomedullelegiacelegiousforlorngloomy
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Adjective(1 words)
Related words (111)
howlinghurtin griefinconsolablejeremianicjoylesslamentablelamentivelugubriousmelancholymoanfulmortuarymovingnecrologicnecrologicalobituaryobsequialovercomepainfulpathetic
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Adjective(53 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- печален adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- тъжен adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Catalan
1 entries- planyívol adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Esperanto
1 entries- funebra adj (filled with grief or sadness)
French
4 entries- affligé adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- chagrin adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- funèbre adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- lugubre adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Galician
1 entries- pesaroso adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Georgian
1 entries- საცოდავი adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Greek
1 entries- πένθιμος adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Italian
1 entries- lamentoso adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Latin
1 entries- funestus adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Māori
3 entries- taukiri adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- tīkapa adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- whakahiatangi adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Occitan
4 entries- languinós adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- malgraciós adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- melancolic adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- mornarós adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Portuguese
1 entries- pesaroso adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Russian
3 entries- заунывный adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- печа́льный adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- скорбный adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- brònach adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Spanish
4 entries- lastimero adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- luctuoso adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- lutoso adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- melancólico adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Turkish
2 entries- hüzünlü adj (filled with grief or sadness)
- kederli adj (filled with grief or sadness)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Many a lonely moon was bright upon the battle-ground, and many a star kept mournful watch upon it, and many a wind from every quarter of the earth blew over it, before the traces of the fight were worn away.
Source: tatoeba (4048965)
Among the rest, the most able are: the ever watchful Crane, the mournful turtle dove, the cuckoo, the stock dove, the woodpecker, the jay, the crow and so on.
Source: tatoeba (7351423)
Tom stood at the window with a mournful expression on his face.
Source: tatoeba (10725637)
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