The word "mournful" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is feeling sorrowful or regretful. Example sentence: The mournful expression on her face revealed her deep sadness.
His Drake edits pair the Torontonian Andrex puppy with mournful 160bpm workouts, and he's part of the Teklife fraternity alongside DJ Spinn et al. Check the recent Buy Now EP, in which he takes 80s boogie – SOS Band, Roy Ayers, Shalamar – and whips round the tempo dial until they're chirruping at breakneck speed.
I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along.
This last time, the mournful trumpet solo feels even more poignant as we scan slowly over the vast oil painting of stricken, grim-faced soldiers, pointing their rifles at an unseen enemy front.
Cue a mournful song in which he doesn't even get to say goodbye before Sylvia leaves.
Sometimes, if it's not feeling in a good mood, it can hang down and make me look like a bloodhound, and if I look mournful, I feel mournful.
He wore a haggard and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute.
It's spare and hushed and nostalgic; a gently mournful dream of what Christmas should be.
The announcement was made by Moyles himself this morning to a background of mournful strings, as the self-proclaimed "saviour of Radio 1" noted that the decision came at the first time in his eight-year spell in the job it had "gone quiet" and "there aren't any rumours about me being fired".
Finding special resonance in these autumnal months, his clipped classical compositions are heavy with anticipation of winter's wrath and a mournful sense of summer past.
This fine-ness then sat around for several days growing ever more desiccated and mournful, after which, unable to face its recriminatory symbolism a moment longer, I dispatched it to the fox-attended coffin that is my north London dustbin.
St Lucia's Elevate Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.37pm AEST01 37 Four out of the first seven records played are by people who've never had a Hottest 100 entry before, says Lewis, who suddenly sounds a bit mournful at being stuck in the studio instead of at a Hottest 100 party.
