Thesaurus / mournfulness
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synonyms for mournfulness
- anguish
- bitterness
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- horror
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- mopes
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
- blue devils
- blue funk
- dismals
- heavy-heartedness
- low spirits
- saturninity
antonyms for mournfulness
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“I have never been married,” he said, with an indefinable mournfulness in his flexible tones.
MYSTERIOUS MR. SABINE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM"Forget the 'Mr. Sherwood,' or you'll make me feel not at home in my own house," he begged with humorous mournfulness.
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWINDLEROY SCOTTAnd, oh, the flatness and mournfulness of those chill wastes of snow outside the city!
MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN PRIMA DONNACLARA LOUISE KELLOGGI pictured myself being found dead in bed, having been extinct for hours and hours, and the mournfulness of it broke me all up.
BIZARRELAWTON MACKALL"As if he cared," she says, with infinite mournfulness, yet obeying his hint all the same.
GUY KENMORE'S WIFE AND THE ROSE AND THE LILYMRS. ALEX MCVEIGH MILLERThe mournfulness with which this was uttered seemed genuine.
THE MYSTERY OF THE HASTY ARROWANNA KATHARINE GREENThe mournfulness of the gaunt, weird scene which the fire has left is peculiarly striking and depressing.
AUSTRALIAN PICTURESHOWARD WILLOUGHBYBut Rupert did not sympathize with this mournfulness; when three ladies were present, conversation should be light, poetical.
JUPITER LIGHTSCONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSONA sad and desolate place it was; a gloomy, sorrowful place, that gave me a strange sensation of mournfulness and even dread.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. XXVII, AUGUST 1852, VOL. VVARIOUSBut with the most sorrowful, time moves on, and even grief cannot retain one phase of mournfulness for ever.
A NOBLE WOMANANN S. STEPHENSWORDS RELATED TO MOURNFULNESS
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bemoaning
- bereavement
- bewailing
- care
- dejection
- deploring
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- gloom
- grievance
- harassment
- heartache
- heartbreak
- infelicity
- lamentation
- lamenting
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- mournfulness
- mourning
- pain
- purgatory
- regret
- remorse
- repining
- rue
- sadness
- sorrow
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vexation
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
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