mournsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by mourning; mournful.
Example Sentences
- "Then there came a mellow noise, very low and mournsome, not a sound to be afraid of, but to long to know the meaning, with a soft rise of the hair."
- "I become the wind. I wind and wend my mournsome way, I thread the trees with keening."
- "I sat up an' squinted in the mournsome dim."
- "“That sure sounds mournsome, ma'am. Who looked after you when you ran out of kin entire?”"
Etymology
Etymology tree English mourn Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English mournsome From mourn + -some.
Inflected Forms
more mournsome (comparative)
most mournsome (superlative)