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What does mournful mean?

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Adjective
  1. Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
  2. Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
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Personal re-invention is at least as much a part of the blues landscape as mournful harmonicas, stinging guitars or walking bass lines.
It is a mournful silence, broken only by the eternal singing of the katydids.
The screams of terror, cries of agony, were now replaced by despairing wails and echoing voices of mournful weepers.
The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.
A mournful adagio is sandwiched between the scherzo's reprise, deftly establishing contrast.
I remember sitting there at the Polo Grounds, and there was a guy sitting near me in the stands blowing this mournful horn.

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