feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad.

of or pertaining to mourning for the dead.

causing grief or lament

a mournful occasion.

gloomy, somber, or dreary, as in appearance or character

mournful shadows.

adjective

anguished , bereft , cheerless , depressed , disconsolate , distressing , doleful , dolent , forlorn , full of sorrow , grief-stricken , grieving , grievous , heartbroken , in mourning , in pain , in sorrow , lamentable , pitiful , sad , sombre , woeful , dolorous , lugubrious , plaintive , rueful , woebegone , deplorable , regrettable , depressing , elegiac , plangent , saddened , somber , sorrowful , sorry , threnodic , unhappy , woful