| Mourning 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mourn. 2. (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow. 3. (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. 4. (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting. 5. (a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like. Thesaurus Entries anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, black, crape, cypress, cypress lawn, deep mourning, desolation, despair, despondency, grief, grieving, heartache, howling, in mourning, keening, lament, lamentation, lamenting, loss, melancholy, misery, moaning, mourning band, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, sadness, sorrow, sorrowing, ululation, wailing, weeds, weeping, woe, woefulness, yew |