Definition for Mournfulness:

• The state of being mournful.

Synonyms for Mournfulness:

• n.

  •
  • happy,
  • gloom,
  • funk,
  • mope,
  • dumps,
  • unhappiness,
  • feelings.
  •blues (noun)
  • un happiness,
  • low spirit,
  • the dismal,
  • un-happinesses,
  • un happinesses,
  • un-happiness,
  • the mope,
  • moodinesses,
  • gloominesses.
  •dejection (noun)
  • contemplativeness,
  • anguish,
  • dolorousness,
  • sullenness,
  • misery,
  • dreariness,
  • woefulness,
  • dejection,
  • glumness,
  • despair,
  • grimness,
  • plaintiveness,
  • despondency,
  • blues,
  • ennui,
  • discouragement,
  • anxiety,
  • joylessness,
  • moroseness,
  • depression.
  •dolefulness (noun)
  • heavy heartedness.
  •downheartedness (noun)
  • lowspiritednesses,
  • low spiritednesses,
  • lowspiritedness,
  • low spiritedness,
  • low-spiritednesses.
  •feeling (noun)
  • ruthfulness,
  • mournfulness.
  •gloom (noun)
  • chagrin,
  • malaise,
  • dullness,
  • bitterness,
  • horror,
  • catatonia,
  • saturninity,
  • mopes,
  • blue funk,
  • blue devils,
  • mourning,
  • morbidity,
  • foreboding,
  • desolation,
  • pessimism,
  • sorrow,
  • woe,
  • oppression,
  • vexation,
  • distress,
  • dolor,
  • heaviness,
  • misgiving,
  • weariness.
  •grief (noun)
  • in felicities,
  • dis-quiet,
  • de solation,
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis tresses,
  • de-solation,
  • bemoanings,
  • dis-tresses,
  • re morses,
  • de solations,
  • dis quiets,
  • bewailings,
  • be-moaning,
  • re-pining,
  • lamentings,
  • be wailing,
  • in felicity,
  • be-wailing,
  • dis-quiets,
  • in-felicity,
  • re-morse,
  • deplorings,
  • dis quiet,
  • in-felicities,
  • be moaning,
  • re morse,
  • dis comfort,
  • re pining,
  • re-morses,
  • repinings,
  • de-solations,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis tress.
  •sadness (noun)
  • forlornnesses,
  • bleaknesses,
  • broken hearts,
  • downcastnesses,
  • cheerlessnesses,
  • sorrowfulnesses,
  • the dump,
  • grievings,
  • disconsolatenesses,
  • dispiritednesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dysphoria,
  • doldrums,
  • heavy-heartedness.

Antonyms for Mournfulness:

• n.

  • gloom
    hopefulness, gladness, cheer, contentment, delight, advantage, comfort, confidence, pleasure, joyfulness, joy, miracle, cheerfulness, encouragement, trust, happiness, benefit.
  • Other antonyms:
    blissfulness, euphoria, gayness, merriment, satisfaction, gleefulness, rapture, gaiety, ecstasy, intoxication, gratification, exuberance, gladsomeness, jollity, joviality, jubilation, mirth, content, humor, elation, exultation, contentedness, sunniness, felicity, optimism, exhilaration, joyousness, heaven, lightheartedness, glee, mirthfulness, rapturousness, bliss, Elatedness.

Mournfulness Sentence Examples:

• The leaves were falling silently in the woods about Arden, and the whole scene wore that aspect of subdued mournfulness which is pleasant enough to the light of heart, but very sad to those who mourn.

• As his eyes, in the patient mournfulness of their reproachful appeal, answer again in memory the shrewish violence of my accusation on the night of the ball - the last embers of my jealousy die.

Hypernym for Mournfulness:

• n.

  • feeling
    woe, plaintiveness, woefulness.

Hyponym for Mournfulness:

• n.

  • feeling
    sorrow.