Synonyms for mourn
mɔrn, moʊrnmourn

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1. mourn

   To mourn is to feel or express sadness or distress because of some loss, affliction, or misfortune; mourning is thought of as prolonged, grief or regret may be transient. One may grieve or mourn, regret, rue, or sorrow without a sound; he bemoans with suppressed and often inarticulate sounds of grief; he bewails with passionate utterance, whether of inarticulate cries or of spoken words. He laments in plaintive or pathetic words, as the prophet Jeremiah in his "Lamentations." One deplores with settled sorrow which may or may not find relief in words. One is made to rue an act by some misfortune resulting, or by some penalty or vengeance inflicted because of it. One regrets a slight misfortune or a hasty word; he sorrows over the death of a friend.

   Synonyms:
   bemoan, bewail, deplore, grieve, lament, regret, rue, sorrow

   Antonyms:
   be joyful, exult, joy, make merry, rejoice, triumph

Princeton's WordNet

1. mournverb

   feel sadness

   "She is mourning her dead child"

2. mournverb

   observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one

Matched Categories

1. • Grieve
   • Observe

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1. mournverb

   Synonyms:
   grieve, lament, be sorrowful

2. mournverb

   Synonyms:
   deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over

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1. mournverb

   Synonyms:
   deplore, lament, regret, grieve, repine, sorrow, bemoan, bewail

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1. List of paraphrases for "mourn":

   cry, mourns, crying, deplore, haddad, mourning, bereavement, weep, lament, whine

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How to use mourn in a sentence?

1. Lucy Somers:

   We ask that all of Luke's family members be allowed to mourn in peace.

2. Avijit Roy:

   Islamist radicals are behind my son's murder, we mourn but we are not out.

3. Malala Yousafzai:

   I, along with millions of others around the world, mourn these children, my brothers and sisters -- but we will never be defeated.

4. Buddha:

   The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

5. William Shakespeare:

   To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.