mournfulness's Usage Examples:

relating to, or involving, an elegy or something that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow.

A number of art historians, including Erwin Panofsky, have detected mournfulness in his expression.

Rise then, ye nations, Cast off your mournfulness; Into His pastures Will ye not gladly press? For there His Word abroad.

called the EP "four delicate, downbeat songs that have a trad-country mournfulness.

There is a mournfulness to these songs; I think it is probably as close to the Negro-Spiritual.

Wu of Liang, he made an impassioned plea in which he displayed both mournfulness and ambition.

that Liu Shi went to Goguryeo to retrieve his father's body, and his mournfulness impressed the people of Goguryeo.

The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself.

song is "much darker than most of their prior material, marrying the mournfulness of Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work with the swell of underground artists.

critic Allan Drouot wrote, "Deutsch's pieces are imbued with the same mournfulness and simplicity that inhabits Satie's piano music.

described his Scottish sketches as "the rain-in-the-air-and-on-the-roof mournfulness of Scotch music in his time-past style [.

death, I know not, but it was a visage of, I should think, habitual mournfulness.

removed any (possibly misleading) anthemic elements and pushed the song's mournfulness to the front.

was more powerful and sweeter because it had to press itself through mournfulness to be seen, force itself through cruelty to show that the light of survival.

highlighted its ability to portray important modern issues with humour and mournfulness, saying the album combines "fist-raising inspired by anthems with the.

"Über den Bergen" (Over the hills; text by Carl Busse; shows a "dirgeful mournfulness"; "tender and sincerely expressive") Leipzig: Verlag von Friedrich Hofmeister.

It was the mournfulness of that true ending that made me call the story "The Hall of Cypresses.

Synonyms:

woe; ruthfulness; plaintiveness; sorrowfulness; sorrow; woefulness;

Antonyms:

jubilation; exhilaration; joyfulness; happiness; joy;