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Search phrase: mournful

Plays

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CoriolanusCor V.vi.151Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully.Beate thou the Drumme that it speake mournfully:
Henry VI Part 11H6 II.ii.16The treacherous manner of his mournful death,The trecherous manner of his mournefull death,
Henry VI Part 22H6 III.i.226Beguiles him as the mournful crocodileBeguiles him, as the mournefull Crocodile
Henry VI Part 22H6 III.ii.340That I may dew it with my mournful tears;That I may dew it with my mournfull teares:
King Edward IIIE3 IV.vii.27Is as a mournful knell to one dead sick.Is as a morneful knell to one dead sicke.
Much Ado About NothingMA IV.i.205Hang mournful epitaphs and do all ritesHang mournfull Epitaphes, and do all rites,
Titus AndronicusTit V.iii.195No funeral rite, nor man in mourning weed,No Funerall Rite, nor man in mournfull Weeds:
Titus AndronicusTit V.iii.196No mournful bell shall ring her burial,No mournfull Bell shall ring her Buriall:

Poems

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SonnetsSonn.102.10 Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night, Then when her mournefull himns did hush the night,

Glossary

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deploringmournful, doleful, bewailing
dumpplaintive melody, mournful song
lamentablesorrowful, mournful, sad
lamentablymournfully, dolefully, sorrowfully
moanplaintiveness, mournfulness, melancholy
mournfulheartbreaking, distressing, causing sorrow
plaintfulmournful, full of complaining
saddowncast, distressed, mournful, gloomy
solemnsorrowful, mournful, melancholic
sullengloomy, dismal, melancholy, mournful
sullen[Q variant of 'sorry'] gloomy, dismal, melancholy, mournful
woepitiable creature, mournful sight
woefulfull of woe, sorrowful, mournful

Thesaurus

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mournfuldeploring
mournfullamentable
mournfulplaintful
mournfulsad
mournfulsolemn
mournfulsullen
mournfulwoeful
mournful sightwoe
mournful songdump
mournfullylamentably
mournfulnessmoan
sight, mournfulwoe
song, mournfuldump

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Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
MOURNBASICmournful adj, mournfully adv

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