different between mournful vs lamenting

English

Alternative forms

• mournfull

Etymology

mourn +? -ful

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??nf?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??nf?l/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?mo(?)?nf?l/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?mo?nf?l/
• Hyphenation: mourn?ful

Adjective

mournful (comparative mournfuller or more mournful, superlative mournfullest or most mournful)

1. Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
2. Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
   • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

     Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sad

Translations

English

Verb

lamenting

1. present participle of lament

Noun

lamenting (plural lamentings)

1. Lamentation.
   • 1577, Timothy Kendall (translator), “The song of S. Ierome in the deseit” in Flowers of Epigrammes, London: John Shepperd,^[1]

     If gronyngs greate, get grace at God,

     and loude lamentyngs, loue:

     I hope my piteous pearcyng plaintes,

     shall God to mercie moue.

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene 3,^[2]

     The night has been unruly: where we lay,

     Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,

     Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death […]

   • 1774, Thomas Hull, Henry the Second: or, the Fall of Rosamund, London: John Bell, Act IV, p. 48,^[3]

     Lose not the Moments

     In vain Lamentings o’er Mischances past:

     One Project foil’d, another should be try’d,

Anagrams

• alignment, gintleman, manteling