Reverse Dictionary: MOURN

ADJECTIVES
► ALL SNOT AND TEARS sorry, remorseful, mournful → Brit. sl.
► BALE sorrowing, mournful, woeful → c1220 obs.
► BALEFUL unhappy, wretched, miserable; distressed, sorrowful, mournful → c1325 arch.
► BEWAILFUL wailing, mournful → 1592 obs.
► CAREFUL full of grief; mournful, sorrowful → a1000 obs.
► DARNFUL gloomy, mournful, dreary → 1916 Amer. dial.
► DORNFUL mournful → 1937 Amer. dial.
► EERIE dismal, sad, melancholy, gloomy, dull, mournful → 1773 Sc.
► ELEGIOUS resembling an elegy; hence, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful → 1632 obs.
► FULIGINOUS murky, dark; obscure; dull; also, melancholy, mournful → 1646
► FUNEBRAL relating to a funeral; mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1581
► FUNEBRIAL relating to a funeral; mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1604
► FUNEBRIOUS pert. to funerals; hence, gloomy, sad, melancholy, mournful → 1630 obs.
► FUNEBROUS relating to a funeral; mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1654
► FUNERAL mournful, gloomy, melancholy → 1425
► FUNEROUS characterized by death or funerals; gloomy, mournful → 1650 obs.
► FUNESTAL relating to death or funerals; gloomy, mournful → 1538 obs.
► GULPY mournful; tearful → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► HEARSE-LIKE like a hearse; mournful → 1625
► LACHRYMABLE expressing of mourning; tearful → 1609 obs.
► LACHRYMENTAL mournful, tearful → 1625 obs.
► LACRYMABLE expressing of mourning; tearful → 1609 obs.
► LAMENTFUL charged with lament; mournful → 1876
► LANGUOROUS distressful, sorrowful, mournful → 1490 obs.
► LENTEN such as is appropriate to Lent; hence of provisions, diet, etc.: such as may be used in Lent, meagre; of clothing, expression of countenance, etc.: mournful-looking, dismal → 1577 obs.
► LUCTIFEROUS bringing sorrow, mournful, gloomy → 1656 obs.
► LUCTIFIC causing sorrow or mourning → 1727 obs.
► LUCTISONANT making a mournful sound → 1656 obs.
► LUCTISONOUS making a mournful sound → 1721 obs.
► LUCTUAL mournful, sorrowful → 1613 obs.
► LUCTUATE to render mournful or gloomy, as with bad news or black drapes → 1772 obs.
► LUCTUOUS mournful → 1721 obs.
► LUGENT mourning or lamenting; weeping → 1656
► LUGUBRE expressing or causing mourning; mournful, sorrowful, sad, dismal, pitiable → 1727 obs.
► LUGUBRIOUS expressing or causing mourning; mournful, sorrowful, sad, dismal, pitiable → 1601
► LUGUBROUS expressing or causing mourning; doleful, mournful, sorrowful, sad, dismal, pitiable → 1632 obs.
► MELANCHOLIOUS affected with melancholy; gloomy, mournful → c1384
► MESTFUL mournful; sad; melancholy; dismal; gloomy → 1577 obs.
► MESTIVE sad, sorrowful, gloomy, dismal, mournful, melancholy → 1578 obs.
► PIPEY mournful; tearful → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► PLORATORY weeping, mournful → 1858
► SITEFUL ► SITFULL sorrowful, mournful, doleful → a1300 obs.
► SOBBY mournful; tearful → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► SOFT mournful; tearful → Bk1942 Amer. sl.
► SYTEFUL sorrowful, mournful → 1400 obs.
► THRENETIC pertaining to a threnody (a song of lamentation); mournful, sorrowful → 1656
► WAILFUL of mournful aspect → 1557 obs.
► WEEPY depressed, denoting tearfulness; mournful, tearful → 1863
► WITH ONE’S FACE AT HALF-PAST EIGHT mournful, wry-mouthed → 20C
► YEARNFUL mournful, sorrowful → a1566

 ADVERBS
► FUNERALLY mournfully, gloomily → 1829
► SYTEFULLY sorrowfully, mournfully → 1488 obs.

NOUNS
► AFFLICTIONS mourning clothes → M19 sl., orig. drapers’ usage
► BACKWARDING a change from joy to mourning → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BLACKS mourning clothes → 1889 Eng. dial.
► CARE utterance of sorrow; lamentation, mourning → a1000 obs.
► CARE-WEED mourning attire → c1500 obs.
► CLOTHING OF CARE mourning-dress → a1300 obs.
► HOUSE TO LET a widow’s weeds → 18C sl.
► LIPEMANIA ► LYPEMANIA a form of insanity characterized by extreme mournfulness → 1874
► LUGUBRIOSITY mournfulness → 1840 rare
► MITIGATED AFFLICTIONS half-mourning → M19 sl.
► SABLES mourning garments; a suit of black worn as an emblem of grief → 1602
► WAILING ROBES mourning garments → 1591

NOUNS – PERSON
► BLACK a mute or hired mourner at a funeral → 1619 obs.
► FACE-ACHE a dreary-looking person; a mournful-looking person → 1937 sl. 
► JAMIE DUFF a professional mourner → M19 sl.
► LONG STREAK OF MISERY a very thin, mournful, and lugubrious person → L19 sl.
► MŒROLOGIST ► MOIROLOGIST in Greece: a hired or professional mourner → 1886 obs.
► MOURNER a person who mourns, laments, or grieves; spec. one who mourns the death of a friend or relation; a person who attends a funeral out of respect or affection for the deceased → a1425
► MOURNERESS a female mourner → 1618 obs.
► MUTE a person hired to mourn at funerals → 18C Brit.
► SALIE ► SALY a hired mourner, who walks in procession before a funeral → 1739 Sc.
► SAULIE ► SAWLIE a hired mourner at a funeral who preceded the cortege with a black staff and other symbols of mourning, a mute → 1621 Sc. obs.
► THIN STREAK OF MISERY a very thin, mournful, and lugubrious person → L19 sl.
► WAILER a professional mourner → 1647
► WAILERESS a female wailer → 1388 obs.
► WAILSTER a female wailer → 1388 obs.

VERBS
► BEMOURN to mourn over; to lament, to bewail → a1000 obs.
► BESTAND to stand by or near; to stand over; esp. to stand by the dead, to mourn for → c1000 obs.
► CARE to mourn, to lament → a1300 obs.
► FUNERAL IT to mourn for the dead → 1641 obs.
► GLOPPEN to lament or mourn → B1900 obs.
► MAKE SITE to lament, to mourn → 1338 obs.
► SWEAM to grieve, to mourn → 1400 obs.
► TAKE ON to cry, to mourn, to grieve → Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
► TROUBLY to grieve, to mourn → B1900 Eng. dial.
► YAMMER to lament, to mourn; to utter cries of lamentation or distress, to wail; to cry aloud fretfully; to whine, to whimper, to fret → 1481 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YEARN to mourn, to grieve → 1562 obs.
– to cause to mourn; to move to compassion → 1593 obs.