mournsome

mournsome

English

Etymology

From mourn +‎ -some.

Adjective

mournsome (comparative more mournsome, superlative most mournsome)

1. Characterised by mourning; mournful
   • 1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:

     Then there came a mellow noise, very low and mournsome, not a sound to be afraid of, but to long to know the meaning, with a soft rise of the hair.

   • 2002, Pat Stewart, Bill Laforme, Key Light:

     I become the wind. I wind and wend my mournsome way, I thread the trees with keening.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     I sat up an' squinted in the mournsome dim.

   • 2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Hangman's Rodeo:

     “That sure sounds mournsome, ma'am. Who looked after you when you ran out of kin entire?”