Adjective: mournful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | mournfuller |
| Superlative | mournfullest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mournful |
| Superlative | most mournful |
Sample Sentences
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Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant. [1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher:]
Adjectives inflected like mournful
sinful,
painful,
playful,
mournful,
mirthful,
healthful,
awful,
yuriful,
hateful,
harmful,
useful,
joyful,
grateful,
Etymology
From mourn + -ful.