MOURNFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mournfully mean? 

• MOURNFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb MOURNFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a mournful manner

  Familiarity information: MOURNFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOURNFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a mournful manner

Context example:

the young man stared into his glass mournfully

Pertainym:

mournful (filled with or evoking sadness)

 Context examples 

She was sadder than ever as she drove along, and said mournfully, “I know he has fallen asleep, and will not be able to set me free.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Well, Twenty Seven,” said Mr. Creakle, mournfully admiring him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I could imagine he was speaking the thoughts of his own mind as he read to me, and his voice, reverberating deeply and mournfully in the confined cabin, charmed and held me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!” said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But they could hear him mournfully howling till they passed out of sight behind a belt of river timber.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Yet how different now the source of her inquietude from what it had been then—how mournfully superior in reality and substance!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Holmes shook his head mournfully.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And she won't go home,” he interposed, shaking his head mournfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Justine shook her head mournfully.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His sons were very much grieved at their father’s sickness; and as they were walking together very mournfully in the garden of the palace, a little old man met them and asked what was the matter.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)