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What (who) is mournful - definition

SPECIES OF MOTH
Sphinx lugubris; Sphinx fegeus; Epistor luctuosus; Mournful sphinx

mournful      
a.
1.
Sad, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, grievous, calamitous, lamentable, melancholy, deplorable, woful.
2.
Sad, melancholy, lugubrious, doleful, sorrowful, heavy.
3.
Sorrowful, sad, unhappy, melancholy, heavy-hearted.
Mournful      
·adj Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.
mournful      
1.
If you are mournful, you are very sad.
He looked mournful, even near to tears...
ADJ
mournfully
He stood mournfully at the gate waving bye bye.
ADV: usu ADV with v
2.
A mournful sound seems very sad.
...the mournful wail of bagpipes.
ADJ

Wikipedia

Enyo lugubris

Enyo lugubris, the mournful sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Argentina and Paraguay to Uruguay, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the West Indies through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Mexico and the United States, where it has been recorded from Arizona east to Florida and north to South Carolina. Strays have been recorded from Arkansas, north to Illinois, Michigan and New York.

The wingspan is 50–60 mm. The body and wings are dark brown. The forewing has a large black patch covering most of the outer half of the wing. There is a pale tan cell spot, and a fairly straight median line to the inside of the cell spot.

Adults are on wing year round in the tropics (including southern Florida and Louisiana). Further north, they are on wing from August to November.

The larvae probably feed on Vitus tiliifolia and other Vitaceae species, such as Vitis, Cissus and Ampelopsis. In Florida larvae have been reported on Cissus sicyoides and Ampelopsis arborea.

Examples of use of mournful
1. Several others were holding mournful departure ceremonies.
2. It is now traditionally sung in Israel on mournful occasions.
3. He was accompanied by the crowd‘s mournful chanting.
4. The only thing separating all of this mournful reportage from an obituary is verb tense.
5. That dance seems to have turned into a mournful funeral march for many.