sad, grievous, lamentable, painful, regrettable, distressing, afflictive, deplorable; pitiable, piteous, pathetic, touching, affecting, heartbreaking, heartrending, tragic; dismal, disheartening, depressing, dreary, somber, dark, gloomy; solemn, wailful, sepulchral, funereal, melancholic, plaintive; threnodic, dirgelike, dirgeful, epicedial, elegiac.
mourning, n. 1. sorrowing, lamentation, grieving, lamenting, groaning, moaning, bemoaning, bewailing; wailing, howling, keening, Yiddish, kvitching; crying, weeping, sobbing, bawling; complaint, Archaic. plaint, moan, groan; keen, wail, ululation, howl; cry, outcry, bawl, jeremiad; fit of crying, flood of tears, tears, lachrymation; pulling one's hair, rending one's clothes or garments, beating one's chest, crying out in sorrow, Inf. singing the blues; murmuring, whimpering, sighing, suspirating.