mournfulness
71mournful — adjective feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief. Derivatives mournfully adverb mournfulness noun …
72mournful — adjective very sad: Durant was thin, mournful and silent. | the slow, mournful music of the bagpipes mournfully adjective mournfulness noun (U) …
73grief — noun 1) he was overcome with grief Syn: sorrow, misery, sadness, anguish, pain, distress, heartache, heartbreak, agony, torment, affliction, suffering, woe, desolation, dejection, despair; mourning …
74poignancy — noun his imminent death gave his words a special poignancy Syn: pathos, pitifulness, piteousness, sadness, sorrow, mournfulness, wretchedness, misery, tragedy …
75sadness — noun our sadness cannot be measured Syn: unhappiness, sorrow, dejection, depression, misery, despondency, despair, desolation, wretchedness, gloom, gloominess, dolefulness, melancholy, mournfulness, woe, heartache, grief; informal the blues …
76roar — vb Roar, bellow, bluster, bawl, vociferate, clamor, howl, ululate are comparable when they mean to make a very loud and often a continuous or protracted noise. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are to be found in their nouns …
77dejection — n disheartenment, dispiritedness, low spiritedness, downheartedness, low spirits, downcastness; discouragement, disappointment, crestfallenness, broken heartedness, heartsickness; unhappiness, cheerlessness, glumness, gloominess, dolefulness,… …
78regret — v 1. lament, bewail, rue, rue the day; deplore, deprecate, bemoan, repine; weep over, grieve, mourn, keen, pine; fret, be stung by conscience; Inf. kick oneself, bite one s tongue, cry over spilt milk; curse one s luck, curse the day, curse one s …
79remorse — n sorrow, sorriness, contrition, regret, penitence, repentance, contriteness, sackcloth and ashes; compunction, bad conscience, guilt, shame, shamefulness, embarrassment, self humiliation, self mortification; self reproach, self reproof, self… …
80repentance — n penitence, sackcloth and ashes, compunction, remorse, remorsefulness, contrition, con triteness, sorrow, sorriness, regret, regret fulness; lamentation, rue, grief, mournfulness, weeping, woe, dole; twinge or pang of conscience, voice of… …
