Need another word that means the same as “mourn”? Find 14 synonyms and 30 related words for “mourn” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Mourn” are: grieve for, sorrow over, lament for, weep for, shed tears for, shed tears over, keen over, wail over, deplore, bewail, bemoan, rue, regret, sigh over
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “mourn” as a verb can have the following definitions:
bemoan | Regret strongly. It was no use bemoaning her lot. |
bewail | Express great regret, sadness, or disappointment about (something. Men will bewail the loss of earlier freedoms. |
deplore | Regret strongly. I deplore this hostile action. |
grieve for | Feel grief. |
keen over | Express grief verbally. |
lament for | Express grief verbally. |
regret | Express with regret. She immediately regretted her words. |
rue | Bitterly regret (something one has done or allowed to happen) and wish it undone. She might live to rue this impetuous decision. |
shed tears for | Get rid of. |
shed tears over | Get rid of. |
sigh over | Utter with a sigh. |
sorrow over | Feel grief. |
wail over | Cry weakly or softly. |
weep for | Shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain. |
alas | By bad luck. Alas I cannot stay. |
bemoan | Regret strongly. It was no use bemoaning her lot. |
deplorable | Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure. Deplorable housing conditions in the inner city. |
deplore | Regret strongly. We deplore all violence. |
dirge | A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, miserable, or boring. Singers chanted dirges. |
doleful | Causing grief or misfortune. The child s doleful expression. |
elegy | (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius. |
grief | Something that causes great unhappiness. We were too tired to cause any grief. |
grieve | Cause great distress to (someone. It grieves me to think of you in that house alone. |
horrible | Provoking horror- Winston Churchill. War is beyond all words horrible. |
howl | Make a howling sound. Their howling had no effect. |
jeremiad | A long and mournful complaint. A jeremiad against any form of government. |
lament | A mournful poem a lament for the dead. His mother s night long laments for his father. |
lamentation | The passionate expression of grief or sorrow; weeping. Scenes of lamentation. |
maudlin | Self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental. A maudlin jukebox tune. |
moan | Make a sound resembling a human moan. Help me I moaned. |
mournful | Expressing sorrow. Her large mournful eyes. |
mourning | State of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one. She s still in mourning after the death of her husband. |
plaintive | Expressing sorrow. A plaintive cry. |
requiem | A musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass or of a similar character. The musical tradition of the requiem mass has inspired imitation. |
sad | Of things that make you feel sad Christina Rossetti. The show is tongue in cheek anyone who takes it seriously is a bit sad. |
sadly | With sadness; in a sad manner. His schemes went sadly awry. |
sadness | The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness. It is one of life s sadnesses. |
sorrow | An event or circumstance that causes sorrow. He drank to drown his sorrows. |
sorry | Feeling regret or penitence. He looks a sorry sight with his broken jaw. |
threnody | A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. A brooding threnody to urban desolation. |
tragic | Very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction. The fact that they are so loved up reminds me just how spectacularly tragic my life is. |
wail | Utter a wail. The wail of an air raid siren. |
weep | A fit or period of weeping. Sit down and have a weep. |
whimper | A whimpering sound. He s not dead is he she whimpered. |
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