Mournful vs Affecting - What's the difference?
mournful | affecting | Related terms |
Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
Mournful is a related term of affecting.
As adjectives the difference between mournful and affecting
is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while affecting is producing strong feelings and emotions.As a verb affecting is
.mournful
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Alternative forms
* mournfullAdjective
(en-adj)- Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.