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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1. Lorenzo Ferrero:

   Seldom have I found in the ritual music of the Catholic church a quality so convincing that there is no need to mourn the past. Without going into a complicated maze of aesthetics, we can define quality as a certain something which is not inferior to what the external world offers, such as to render every Christian proud of his own music.

2. Malu Dreyer:

   The pain of the mother who lost her child and her husband takes my voice away, there will never again be the laughter of the father and the child. Others who have to mourn dead feel the same way... they will have to carry this burden for the rest of their lives.

3. Sheema Sen Gupta:

   This horrific attack right before Eid Al-Adha is a terrible reminder of the violence Iraqi children continue to face, on the eve of Eid Al-Adha and as Iraqis mourn this sad moment, UNICEF calls for all actors in Iraq to work together towards a safer Iraq where children do not have to live in fear and where they enjoy their very basic activities and rights.

4. Jesus Christ:

   Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

5. Farris Wilks:

   We lament and mourn the great sin of our nation, the many millions of babies murdered, and we pray that you turn these people away from this evil.