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Doleful

Doleful Meaning & Definition
Doleful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Doleful?

[adj] filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Doleful: mournful | sad

Related Terms | Find terms related to Doleful: affecting | afflicted | aggrieved | anguished | blue | careworn | cast down | cheerless | crestfallen | dejected | depressed | depressing | disconsolate | dispirited | distressed | distressing | dolorous | down | downhearted | down-in-the-mouth | dreary | dumb with grief | forlorn | funereal | gloomy | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | grieving | grievous | harrowing | heartrending | in grief | joyless | lamentable | lugubrious | melancholy | miserable | mournful | mourning | moving | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | plaintive | plangent | plunged in grief | rueful | ruthful | sad | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | tearful | touching | unhappy | woebegone | woeful | wretched

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Doleful In Webster's Dictionary

\Dole"ful\, a. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. --South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. --Milton. Syn: Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal; dolorous; woe-begone. - {Dole"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dole"ful*ness}, n.

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