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Definition of mournfulness:
Synonyms:
mopes, blue devils, ruthfulness, funk, feelings, dysphoria, disconsolateness, dumps, gloom, despond, desolation, oppression, heavy-heartedness, miserableness, mope, despondence, happy, unhappiness, forlornness, heartsickness, sorrowfulness, doldrums.
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dejection (part of speech: noun)
- dejection,
- dreariness,
- downheartedness,
- gloominess,
- dispiritedness,
- moroseness,
- discouragement,
- glumness,
- ennui,
- melancholy,
- plaintiveness,
- despondency,
- wistfulness,
- moodiness,
- anguish,
- joylessness,
- depression,
- woefulness,
- misery,
- despair,
- contemplativeness,
- anxiety,
- pensiveness,
- sadness,
- grimness,
- sullenness,
- disheartenment,
- blues,
- dolorousness
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lamentation (part of speech: noun)
- lamentation,
- dolefulness,
- sorrow,
- melancholy,
- plaintiveness,
- ululation,
- dolor,
- grief,
- woefulness
Usage examples:
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With the expression of courteous mournfulness proper in an outrivaled cavalier, he made the gesture silently of having been at the lady's service.
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Her sin was there: but in dreaming to save, he was soft to her sin- drowned it in deep mournfulness.
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This is that 'melancholy a man knows when he is face to face' with nature, and thinks 'he hears her communing with him about' the mournfulness of being born and of dying; and how can it do otherwise than call into his mind 'its exiles, its flights across the seas, ' that it may stir the ever- smouldering ashes?
