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Main Entry:
mournful [mawrn-fuhl, mohrn-]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sorrowful
Synonyms: anguished, bereft, cheerless, depressed, disconsolate, distressing, doleful, dolent, forlorn, full of sorrow, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, heartbroken, in mourning, in pain, in sorrow, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sombre, woeful
Main Entry: bleak
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: black, cheerless, comfortless, dark, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grim, hard, harsh, hopeless, joyless, lonely, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, unpromising
Antonyms: cheerful, comforting, congenial, encouraging, nice, pleasant
Main Entry: brokenhearted
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: devastated
Synonyms: crestfallen, crushed, desolate, despairing, despondent, disappointed, disconsolate, grief-stricken, grieved, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, miserable, mournful, prostrated, sorrowful, wretched
Antonyms: happy, lighthearted, pleased
Example Sentences
  • He is the sole survivor, and was the only one left to communicate the mournful intelligence to the nearest settlement.
  • Every now and then, there is a mournful cry and a behemoth appears through the trees, rushing by indifferent to man and beast.
  • Hear that vision come to life in the mournful call of sandhill cranes and naturalize your desktop with hand-tinted photographs.
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Main Entry: cheerless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressing, unhappy
Synonyms: austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting
Main Entry: dark
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: grim, hopeless
Synonyms: bleak, cheerless, dismal, doleful, drab, foreboding, gloomy, joyless, morbid, morose, mournful, ominous, sinister, somber, unpropitious
Antonyms: bright, brilliant, encouraging, hopeful, shining
Main Entry: deplorable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unfortunate, shameful
Synonyms: afflictive, awful, blameworthy, bummer, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer, dreadful, execrable, faulty, godawful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, horrifying, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, pitiable, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless
Main Entry: depressing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discouraging, upsetting
Synonyms: black, bleak, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dismal, dispiriting, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, saddening, somber
Antonyms: cheering, encouraging, happy
Main Entry: doleful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: depressing
Synonyms: afflicted, cast down, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, dirgeful, dismal, dispirited, distressing, dolent, dolorous, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grieving, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: cheerful, elated, glad, gleeful, happy, joyful
Main Entry: dolorous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: miserable, anguished
Synonyms: afflicted, afflictive, calamitous, deplorable, dire, distressing, doleful, dolent, dolesome, dolorific, grievous, harrowing, heart-rending, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: cheery, happy, hopeful
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