100 Best Synonyms for “Mournful”

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abandoned left alone and sad
2. aching filled with emotional pain
3. afflicted troubled by suffering or sorrow
4. anguished showing severe emotional pain
5. bereaved grieving after a death
6. bereft deprived and sorrowful
7. bleak cold, sad, and hopeless
8. bleary sad, tired, and tearful-looking
9. blue sad or depressed
10. brokenhearted deeply saddened by loss
11. brooding gloomily thoughtful
12. cheerless lacking happiness or warmth
13. choked strained by emotion or tears
14. crestfallen sad after disappointment
15. crushed emotionally defeated and saddened
16. crying shedding tears from sadness
17. dejected sad and low-spirited
18. demoralized discouraged and saddened
19. desolate sad, lonely, and hopeless
20. dirgelike resembling a mournful funeral song
21. disconsolate unable to be comforted
22. dispirited sad and without enthusiasm
23. distressed upset and troubled
24. doleful expressing sorrow or sadness
25. dolorous full of sorrow or pain
26. downcast sad and discouraged
27. downhearted discouraged and sad
28. elegiac mournful like a lament
29. forlorn sad and abandoned-looking
30. forsaken abandoned and sorrowful
31. funereal sad and suited to funerals
32. gloomy sad and without cheer
33. glum quietly sad or gloomy
34. grave serious and sorrowful
35. gray gloomy, sad, or dull
36. grief-stricken overcome by intense grief
37. grieving showing grief or loss
38. grim stern, bleak, and sorrowful
39. heart-wrenching causing severe emotional pain
40. heartbreaking causing deep sadness
41. heartbroken overwhelmed by grief
42. heartrending causing intense sadness
43. heartsick deeply sad and distressed
44. heartsore aching with sadness
45. heavy sad and emotionally weighty
46. heavyhearted sad and burdened emotionally
47. hopeless sad and without hope
48. hushed quiet in a solemn way
49. inconsolable too sad to be comforted
50. joyless without joy or happiness
51. keening wailing in grief
52. lachrymose tearful or prone to weeping
53. lamentful full of lament or sorrow
54. lamenting expressing grief or regret
55. lonely sad from being alone
56. lonesome lonely and sad
57. lorn lonely, forsaken, and sad
58. low-spirited sad and lacking energy
59. lugubrious exaggeratedly sad or gloomy
60. melancholic characterized by melancholy sadness
61. melancholy sad in a thoughtful way
62. minor-key sad-sounding, like minor music
63. miserable extremely unhappy or distressed
64. misty-eyed tearful with emotion or sadness
65. moody gloomy or emotionally changeable
66. moping sad and listlessly inactive
67. mopish gloomy and dejected
68. morose gloomy and ill-tempered
69. muted softened and quietly sad
70. pained showing emotional hurt
71. pathetic arousing pity through sadness
72. pensive quietly sad and thoughtful
73. piteous sad and pitiable
74. pitiful sad and deserving pity
75. plaintive sounding sad and mournful
76. poignant deeply moving and sad
77. regretful sad about something lost
78. rueful sad with regret
79. sad feeling or showing sorrow
80. saddened made or feeling sad
81. saturnine gloomy and grave
82. shattered emotionally devastated
83. solemn serious and grave in mood
84. somber dark, serious, and sad
85. sorehearted sad and emotionally wounded
86. sorrowful full of deep sadness
87. stricken overwhelmed by grief or trouble
88. sullen gloomily silent or resentful
89. tearful showing sadness through tears
90. teary full of tears
91. threnodic expressing lamentation for the dead
92. tragic very sad and disastrous
93. unhappy not happy; sad
94. wailing crying out in sorrow
95. wan pale and sad-looking
96. weeping crying from sadness
97. weepy inclined to cry from sadness
98. wistful sadly longing for something
99. woeful very sad or sorrowful
100. wretched deeply unhappy or miserable