Mournful vs Scorned - What's the difference?
mournful | scorned |
Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
Hated, despised, or avoided.
:Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.
(scorn)
As adjectives the difference between mournful and scorned
is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while scorned is hated, despised, or avoided.As a verb scorned is
(scorn).mournful
English
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.