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Definitions for Mourning

[1] the act of a person who mourns; sorrowing or lamentation.
[2] the conventional manifestation of sorrow for a person's death, especially by the wearing of black clothes or a black armband, the hanging of flags at half-mast, etc.
[3] the outward symbols of such sorrow, as black garments.
[4] the period or interval during which a person grieves or formally expresses grief, as by wearing black garments.
[5] of, relating to, or used in mourning.
[6] to feel or express sorrow or grief.
[7] to grieve or lament for the dead.
[8] to show the conventional or usual signs of sorrow over a person's death.
[9] to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or anything regretted); deplore.
[10] to grieve or lament over (the dead).
[11] to utter in a sorrowful manner.
[12] the act or feelings of one who mourns; grief
[13] the conventional symbols of grief, such as the wearing of black
[14] the period of time during which a death is officially mourned
[15] in mourning observing the conventions of mourning
[16] of or relating to mourning
[17] to feel or express sadness for the death or loss of (someone or something)
[18] (intr) to observe the customs of mourning, as by wearing black
[19] (tr) to grieve over (loss or misfortune)

Words related to Mourning

grief, weeping, darkness, aching, wailing, bereavement, languishing, crying, woe, lamenting, blackness, keening, repining, lamentation, moaning, pining, grieving

Words nearby Mourning

mourne mountains, mourner, mourner's kaddish, mourners' bench, mournful, mourning, mourning band, mourning becomes electra, mourning cloak, mourning dove, mourning iris

Origin of Mourning

before 900; Middle English mo(u)rnen, Old English murnan; cognate with Old High German mornēn, Old Norse morna, Gothic maurnan

Other words from Mourning

mourn·ing·ly , adverb
un·mourn·ing , adjective
o·ver·mourn , verb
un·mourned , adjective

Word origin for Mourning

Old English murnan; compare Old High German mornēn to be troubled, Gothic maurnan to grieve, Greek mermeros worried

Synonyms for Mourning

grief, aching, bereavement, blackness, crying, darkness, grieving, keening, lamentation, lamenting, languishing, moaning, pining, repining, sorrowing, wailing, weeping, woe