mournfulness

3 definitions found

mournfulness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mournful \Mourn"ful\, a.
     Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow;
     mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening;
     grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.
     -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive;
          grievous; calamitous.
          [1913 Webster]

mournfulness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mournfulness
      n 1: a state of gloomy sorrow [syn: mournfulness,
           sorrowfulness, ruthfulness]

mournfulness - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "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