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单词 mournful
释义 mourn·ful
\-nfəl\ adjective
(sometimes mournfuller sometimes mournfullest)
1.
 a. : full of sorrow : sad
  < stared with mournful eyes at a daydream of her lost husband — Eric Linklater >
 b. : causing sorrow : saddening
  < mournful news >
2.
 a. : of a melancholy nature : doleful, dispirited
  < took a mournful view of human affairs — Ellen Glasgow >
  < in a mournful rehearsal in Philadelphia I read to my dancers … and they took heart — Agnes de Mille >
 b. : having a gloomy sound or aspect : dismal, somber
  < a long, mournful howl — Lyle Saxon >
  < the mournful tolling of a bell — Jack London >
  < a country of mournful cedar thickets — American Guide Series: Tennessee >
3. : causing disappointment : regrettable
 < a mournful obtuseness of moral feeling in regard to the crimes of military and political life — W.E.Channing >
mourn·ful·ly \-fəlē, -li\ adverb
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