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# mournful

«mournful» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **full of sorrow or sadness, showing grief** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Mournful means full of sorrow or sadness, showing grief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mournful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means sad and grieving, here the psalmist's grief for his enemies as if they were family. Interpretation: The psalm is read as showing a righteous person who prays and mourns for others even when they hurt him. In the primary lessons: in tales a person looks sad, or a sad sound is heard, as when someone has lost a loved one

### examples

- I went about as though it had been my friend or my brother; I bowed down mournful, as one that mourneth for his mother. (Writings PSA.35.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mournful/#x1)
- Why are you so mournful? she asks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mournful/#x2)
- He looked very mournful after the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mournful/#x3)
- A mournful wind blew over the moor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mournful/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths; it describes a mood, not a count.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mournful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/mournful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.