Definition of Mournful

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Definition of Mournful
	Mournful 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. Related Definitions: Also, As, Causing, Express, Expressing, Full, Grieving, Grievous, Intended, Loss, Mournful, Mourning, Of, Or, Person, Sad, Saddening, Sorrow, To

Mournful Quotations

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Jean Baudrillard

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
Lydia M. Child

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
Pierre Loti

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
Georg Trakl

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
David K. Shipler

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
David Mallet

Mournful Translations

mournful in Dutch is rouw-
mournful in Latin is tristis, miserabilis, luctisonus, lacrimosus

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