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[syn: mournfulness, sorrowfulness, ruthfulness]
The 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mournfulness
n 1: a state of gloomy sorrow [syn: mournfulness,
sorrowfulness, ruthfulness]
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