mourn, v. 1. grieve, sorrow, lament, ache, suffer, eat one's heart out, be sad, be anguished, bewail, bemoan; weep for, be sorry for, deplore, regret, repine, rue, rue the day; yearn, languish, despair; break down, give way, melt into tears, cry one's eyes out.
2. weep, cry, sob, Scot. and North Eng. greet; keen, ululate, wail, howl, Yiddish, kvitch, Yiddish, geshrie; beat one's breast, flagellate oneself, tear one's hair, gnash one's teeth, rend one's clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, wear mourning, wear widow's weeds; be dumb with grief, elegize, give sorrow words, Inf. sing the blues. mourner, n. sorrower, griever, lamenter, weeper, wail-er, bewailer, bemoaner, elegizer, repiner, groaner, whimperer; survivor, widow or widower, bereaved person, orphan, SI. relict; commiserator, condoler, pallbearer, bearer, undertaker, Brit. Obs. mute, professional mourner, Inf. crepe hanger. mournful, adj. 1. sad, sorrowful, doleful, dolorous, downcast, downhearted, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, discouraged; woeful, cheerless, joyless, forlorn, woebegone; sorrowing, attended with sorrow, Fr. triste, unhappy, afflicted, disheartened, bowed-down, wan, blue, pensive, grim-visaged, long-faced; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; grief-stricken, prostrate, overcome, overcome with grief, dashed, broken-hearted, despairing, heartsick, disconsolate, despondent, melancholy, desolate, cut up; lugubrious, lachrymose, tearful, shedding tears, bathed in tears, crying; moaning, groaning, wailing, keening, Yiddish, kvitching.