Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOURN'FUL, a.

1. Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief; as, a mournful bell; mournful music. Shak. Dryden. No funeral rites nor men in mournful weeds. Shak.
2. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as, a mournful death. Shak.
3. Sorrowful; feeling grief. The mournful fair – / Shall visit her distinguished urn. Prior.