mourning

1. 1.

   sorrowful through loss or deprivation

   “bereft of hope”

   Synonymsbereavedbereftgrief-strickengrievingsorrowing

   Similarsorrowful

Other forms of mourning

plural

mournings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mourning

What does mourning mean?

mourning means "state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mourning?

mourning has 2 syllables: mour-ning. The stress falls on "mour". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/.

What is another word for mourning?

Close synonyms include bereavement, lamentation, bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mourning a common word?

mourning is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mourning?

1 word rhymes with mourning. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.