Complete Definition of "mournfully"

English

Adverb
en-adv

  1. In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.

#*1927, w:Virginia Woolf|Virginia Woolf, w:To the Lighthouse|To the Lighthouse, page 140
#*:The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.

te:mournfully
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