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Mournfulness

Definition: Mournfulness

Mournfulness

Noun

1. A state of gloomy sorrow.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mournfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references)


Synonyms: Mournfulness

Synonyms: ruthfulness (n), sorrowfulness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mournfulness

English words defined with "mournfulness": gloominesslugubriousnesswoe, woefulness. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Mournfulness

"Mournfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mournfulness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mournfulness

Language Translations for "mournfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

surullisuus (sadness). (various references)

   

German

  

traurigkeit (cheerlessness, dolorousness, lugubriousness, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, unhappiness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θρηνώδεσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szomorúság (dejection, discomfort, dismalness, dreariness, dumps, gloom, grief, ruefulness, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, woe). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dolore (ache, bale, distress, dolor, dolour, grief, pain, painfulness, sorrow, woe), afflizione (affliction, distress, grief, sadness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ournfulnessmay

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất bu"n rầu (sorrowfulness), tính chất ảm đạm, sự thê lương, sự tang tóc. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Mournfulness

Derivations

Words beginning with "mournfulness": mournfulnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mournfulness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-l-m-n-n-o-r-s-s-u-u"

-3 letters: frenulums.

-4 letters: fenurons, formless, foulness, frenulum, lornness, mournful, nonusers, normless, nounless, numerous, sulfones.

-5 letters: emulous, ensouls, fenuron, frenums, fulness, fulsome, funnels, furless, merlons, morsels, mousers, museful, nelsons, neurons, nonfuel, nonself, nonuser, nonuses, ourself, ronnels, runless, runnels, sermons, sulfone, sulfurs, unfurls.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-l-m-n-n-o-r-s-s-u-u"
 

+2 letters: mournfulnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mournfulness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 75 72 6E 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101110 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0075 0072 006E 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478187848072877880718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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