Noah Webster
Mournful
MOURNFUL, adjective Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief, as a mournful bell; mournful music.
No funeral rites nor man in mournful weeds.
1. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as a mournful death.
2. Sorrowful; feeling grief.
The mournful fair--
Shall visit her distinguished urn.