lugubrious, bathetic, mawkish, toneless, dolorous, doleful, overwrought, maudlin, mellifluous, melodramatic, plangent, shrill, soporific, stentorian, quavery, overfamiliar, unaffecting, mournful, sententious, melancholy, orotund, treacly, somnambulistic, elegiac, rebarbative, affectless, incantatory, schoolmasterly, weepy, florid, songful, admonitory, schmaltzy, premonitory, wistful, histrionic, hackneyed, platitudinous, ruminative, nabokovian, splenetic, plaintive, leaden, sophoclean, sotto voce, danse macabre, perfunctory, exhortatory, stagey, latterday, songlike, onanistic, syrupy, rueful, saturnine, morose, kyrie eleison, trite, muzzy, tearjerking, rhapsodic, overdetermined, neurasthenic, piteous, unpoetic, grandiloquent, saccharine, melismatic, tremulous, querulous, desolating, bilious, cloying, cacophonic, solipsistic, mirthless, phantasmal, tinkly, fugal, clangorous, seraphic, baleful, beethovenian, sneery, mozartian, whiggish, sonorous, waspish, sarky, handelian, teacherly, wordsworthian, unmodulated, sardonic, gushy, minatory, maidenly, pedantic, droll, melancholic, dulcet, blowsy, sentimental, pathetic, tragicomic, humorous, pitying, chatty, humourous, despondent, rollicking, farcical, folksy, gossipy, jocular, reticent, tearful

dolourous, sorrowful, weeping