mournful

adj.

1. Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
2. Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy: the mournful sound of a train whistle.

mournfully mourn'ful·ly adv.
mournfulness mourn'ful·ness n.

adjective

1. Full of or expressive of sorrow: doleful, dolorous, lugubrious, plaintive, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful. See happy/unhappy.
2. Causing sorrow or regret: deplorable, doleful, dolorous, grievous, lamentable, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woeful. See happy/unhappy.

adj

Definition: sad
Antonyms: cheerful, happy, joyful

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: expressing sorrow
  Synonym: plaintive

Meaning #2: filled with or evoking sadness
  Synonym: doleful

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - sorgful, trist, sørgelig

Nederlands (Dutch)
treurig

Français (French)
adj. - mélancolique, triste

Deutsch (German)
adj. - traurig, trauervoll

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - πένθιμος

Italiano (Italian)
mesto

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fúnebre

Русский (Russian)
печальный, траурный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - triste, afligido

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - sorglig, sorg(e)-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
悲恸的, 令人惋惜的, 悲哀的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 悲慟的, 令人惋惜的, 悲哀的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 애도하는, 우울한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 悲しみに沈んだ, 悲しげな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) محزون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עצוב, מלא צער‬

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