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- Dictionarymournful/ˈmɔːnf(ʊ)l/
adjective
- 1. feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief: "her large, mournful eyes"
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6 days ago · a state of gloomy sorrow.
3 days ago · adverb. in a mournful manner. “the young man stared into his glass mournfully ” Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Mournfully." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/mournfully. Accessed 03 Jul. 2024. Copy citation. VocabTrainer™. 2 million people have mastered 404,058,490 new words.
3 days ago · Held by some parishes and monasteries on Spy Wednesday of Holy Week, Tenebrae is not only rich in striking visual elements, but also features some of the most distinctively mournful music the Church has to offer with the chanting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah and the Psalms.
Jun 21, 2024 · Banshee, (“woman of the fairies”) supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful “keening,” or wailing screaming or lamentation, at night was believed to foretell the death of a member of the family of the person who heard the spirit.
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Jun 21, 2024 · A supernatural songstress whose mournful melodies precede impending death. You’ve heard of her, yes? The banshee roams the Irish countryside, hovering just above the ground like a vapor, gliding over bogs, passing Stingy Jack and the Dullahan and other Irish spirits in the night, perhaps.
Jun 12, 2024 · Fado is a style of music like no other. Mournful, stirring, and you could even say pessimistic – in true Portuguese fashion the lyrics tend to reflect on some of the sadder parts of life.
Jun 11, 2024 · The voice is distinctive, including guttural sounds and the mournful, eerie wailing cries that in North America may have given rise to the common name loon. (Some sources suggest it arises from the Old Norse word lōmr, which means “to moan.”) Loons feed mainly on fishes, crustaceans, and insects.
