Meaning of DOLEFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'dowlful
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| | Definition: | | [adj] filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news" |
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| | Synonyms: | | mournful, sad |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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