mournful

adj

1. sad, sorrowful, doleful, dolorous, downcast, downhearted, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, discouraged; woeful, cheerless, joyless, forlorn, woebegone; sorrowing, attended with sorrow, Fr. triste. unhappy, afflicted, disheartened, bowed-down, wan, blue, pensive, grim-visaged, long-faced; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; grief-stricken, prostrate, overcome, overcome with grief, dashed, broken-hearted, despairing, heartsick, disconsolate, despondent, melancholy, desolate, cut up; lugubrious, lachrymose, tearful, shedding tears, bathed in tears, crying; moaning, groaning, wailing, keening, Yiddish. kvitching.

2. sad, grievous, lamentable, painful, regrettable, distressing, afflictive, deplorable; pitiable, piteous, pathetic, touching, affecting, heartbreaking, heartrending, tragic; dismal, disheartening, depressing, dreary, somber, dark, gloomy; solemn, wailful, sepulchral, funereal, melancholic, plaintive; threnodic, dirgelike, dirgeful, epicedial, elegiac