Word Study
mournfulness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mournfulness has 1 sense
- mournfulness(n = noun.feeling) ruthfulness, sorrowfulness - a state of gloomy sorrow; Array has particulars: woe, woefulness, plaintiveness
is a kind of sorrow
Derived forms adjective mournful2, adjective mournful1
THESAURUS
mournfulness
aggrievedness, bitterness, bleakness, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dolorousness, dreariness, funerealness, grief, grievousness, joylessness, lamentability, lamentation, lugubriousness, pain, painfulness, pathos, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, plangency, poignancy, regrettableness, ruefulness, sadness, sharpness, sorrowfulness, tearfulness, woebegoneness, woefulness
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