Crossword clues for mournfulness
mournfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being mournful.
WordNet
n. a state of gloomy sorrow [syn: sorrowfulness, ruthfulness]
Usage examples of "mournfulness".
And yet there is more mirth than mournfulness, more fiery determination than tepid acceptance.
If a leaf of the paper, which I warily, thievishly, moved, made but one rustle, how did that reveille boom through the haunted halls of my heart, and there was a cough in my swallow which for long I shirked to cough, till it burst with pitiless turbulence from my lips, sending crinkles of cold through my very soul: for with the words which I read were all mixed up visions of hearses crawling, palls, and wails, and crapes, and piercing shrieks of distraction pealing through vaults of catacombs, and all the mournfulness of that valley of shadow, and the tragedy of corruption.