mournful
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aching, agonized, anguished, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolesome, dolorous, funeral, grieving, heartbroken, lamentable, lugubrious, plaintive, plangent, regretful, rueful, sorrowful, sorry, wailing, weeping, woeful
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While Dalton is mournful and beaten, Tate is all youthful, luminous hope. — Barbara Vandenburgh, azcentral, "Review: Quentin Tarantino gets personal in bittersweet ‘Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood’," 24 July 2019 The melody was both mournful and urgent, like a funeral song for someone not quite dead. — National Geographic, "In Corsica, on a quest for beautiful harmony," 24 July 2019 The crowd at the park moves slowly along the panorama, savoring every detail as a mournful melody of flutes and drums issues from somewhere in the rafters. — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, "The Call of the Drums," 21 July 2019 Things kicked off this morning, and the game has a vibe that’s both festive and mournful. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "Splatoon 2’s final splatfest starts today, marking the end of an era," 18 July 2019 One Vindicator journalist told me it would be telling to have a show of hands at the mournful community meeting: How many of the bereft were actual subscribers? — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, "‘Democracy . . . is about to die in Youngstown’ with closing of the local newspaper," 7 July 2019 As with Conrad’s other show, the lovely and mournful Patriot, Perpetual Grace LTD is worth watching less for its plot — which is fun and twisty but also not exactly anything new — and much more for its overall vibe. — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, "Perpetual Grace LTD is worth subscribing to yet another streaming service for," 21 June 2019 In her emotional telling of the story, there was a sense of grief over some innocence that was lost and her clothes took on a mournful tone. — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, "Kamala Harris wore black. That was both unremarkable and theatrically powerful.," 28 June 2019 The uncanny little boy; the charismatic, slightly mournful young man; the shape-shifting child-man-woman-cyborg-extraterrestrial. — Margo Jefferson, Harper's magazine, "Lost Boy," 24 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mournful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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