Mournful vs Lamentable - What's the difference?
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Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
Lamentable is a synonym of mournful.
As adjectives the difference between mournful and lamentable
is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while lamentable is causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.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.