(a.) Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.

Jeremianic affecting afflicted afflictive aggrieved anguished bitter bleak blue calamitous careworn catastrophic cheerless cinerary comfortless complaining deplorable depressing depressive desolate despairing despondent dirgelike disastrous discomforting disconsolate disheartening dismal dismaying dispirited distressful distressing doleful dolorific dolorogenic dolorous downhearted dreary dumb with grief epitaphic exequial faultfinding feral forlorn fretful funebrial funebrious funebrous funeral funerary funereal grief-stricken griefful grieved grievous heartbroken heartsick howling in grief inconsolable joyless lamentable lamentive lugubrious melancholy moanful mortuary moving necrological obituary obsequial overcome painful pathetic peevish petulant piteous pitiable plaintive plangent plunged in grief poignant prostrate puling querulous regrettable rueful sad saddening sepulchral sharp sore sorrowed sorrowful sorrowing tearful touching tragic ululant uncomfortable unhappy upsetting wailful whimpering whining whiny woebegone woeful wretched