Definition: filled with or evoking sadness
Usage: the child's doleful expression; stared with mournful eyes; mournful news
Similar words: sad
Definition: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Usage: feeling sad because his dog had died; Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad- Christina Rossetti
Definition: expressing sorrow
Similar words: sorrowful
Definition: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Usage: sorrowful widows; a sorrowful tale of death and despair; sorrowful news; even in laughter the heart is sorrowful- Proverbs 14:13