mourn
Meanings
Plural: mourns
Verb
- feel sadness
- "She is mourning her dead child"
- observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
- To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).
- To utter in a sorrowful manner.
- To wear mourning.
Noun
- Sorrow, grief.
- A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).
Synonyms
aggrieve, begrieve, bemoan, besorrow, bewail, beweep, bleed, blueness, blues, condole, crestfallenness, dejection, deplore, depression, despondency, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, engrieve, erme, forlornness, gloom, grief, grieve, grieven, heartsore, ill-being, infelicity, keen, lament, mean, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, moan, mourn, pine, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sigh, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, wail, wayment, weep, woe, woefare, wretchedness, yearn
Scrabble Score: 7
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