Bad and Mournful

Bad

Bad adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: hearing about the world's miseries always makes him feel bad

Mournful and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mournful" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Mournful

Mournful adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.

Bad and mournful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Mournful".

Both words in one sentence

  • Narm / Live-Action TV Our hero, Danny, attempts to single-handedly bring down the bad guys, but passes out before he can... in slow-motion... to the mournful strains of Gary Jules' "Mad World." It's an aggressively silly show anyway, but this was just spectacular.
  • Music / The Cranberries Song Style Shift: "Daffodil Lament" turns from a mournful dirge about a woman trapped in a bad relationship to a joyful, optimistic tune with a ringing guitar line after she leaves him.
  • Film / The Town The look on Frawley's face when Coughlin decides to make the cops kill him looks almost mournful, showing that while he would have stopped at nothing to arrest a bad guy, he wanted to take Coughlin alive.
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