MOURNFUL, adjective Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief, as a mournful bell; mournful music. No funeral rites nor man in mournful weeds. 1. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as a mournful death. 2. Sorrowful; feeling grief. The mournful fair-- Shall visit her distinguished urn.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI