Synonyms of mournful
- 1 Syllable
- drear, sad
- 2 Syllables
- joyless, bereft, grieving, saddest, grievous, mopey, forlorn, rueful, mirthless, let-down, beefing, ruthful, sadder, piteous, teary, broody, sombre, tearful, woeful, wistful, drearier, dolent, tragic, somber, heartsick, dreary, cheerless
- 3 Syllables
- pitiable, regretful, pitiful, guilt-ridden, grief-stricken, anguished, heartbroken, plaintive, unhappier, lugubrious, threnodial, unhappiest, dirgeful, distressing, sorrowful, godawful, chapfallen, funereal, morose, unhappy, blubbery, elegiac, lamenting, depressing, sepulchral, doleful, dolorous, depressed
- 4 Syllables
- down-in-the-mouth, self-reproachful, penitential, dirgelike, lamentable, deplorable, perversive, tenebrific, woebegone, brokenhearted, dolesome, dolorific, melancholy, miserable, remorseful, drearisome
- 5 Syllables
- disconsolate