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# mournfully

«mournfully» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a sad, sorrowful way, as if grieving** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Mournfully means in a sad, sorrowful way, as if grieving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mournfully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a character speaks or thinks in a sad voice, often after losing something or someone

### examples

- "Died!" mournfully repeated the old woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mournfully/#x1)
- "She does not see me yet," he thought mournfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mournfully/#x2)
- "That is the King," he said mournfully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mournfully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; it describes a manner of speaking, not a count.

### Trees and pragmatics

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