Mourning and Widowed

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Mourning adjective - Sorrowful through loss or deprivation.

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Widowed and mourning are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Widowed" instead an adjective "Mourning".

Nearby Words: mournful, mourn, mourned, mourner

Widowed adjective - Single because of death of the spouse.

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Mourning and widowed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Mourning" instead an adjective "Widowed".

Nearby Words: widow, widower, widowhood

In Albert Herring, when Albert disappears the day after being crowned King of the May and all the town is desperately searching for him alive or dead, his widowed mother immediately goes into deep mourning.

Source: Premature Eulogy
Charity Ball: Scarlett O'Hara scandalously insists on going to one for the Southern cause, despite having recently been widowed and therefore expected to be in mourning, mostly because she's bored and refuses to pass up the chance for a party.

Source: Film / Gone with the Wind
It's also worth noting that many aspects of the wicked witch (an old woman in mourning black, living alone, loves children, has a cat) are perfectly ordinary things you might expect from a widowed older woman, twisted to make them sound evil.

Source: Wicked Witch

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