Doleful

Quick meaning: Doleful is an adjective meaning Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

Meaning

Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

Example Sentences

A doleful expression that tugged at my heartstrings.

The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.

“We face a doleful future,” said Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, a former president of the National Academy of Medicine.

O King this is very doleful. It is told that that traveller came at last to the utter End and there was a mighty gulf, and in the darkness at the bottom of the gulf one small god crept, no bigger than a hare, whose voice came crying in the cold: “I know not.” And beyond the gulf was nought, only the small god crying.

Word Forms

• dolefuller
• dolefuler
• dolefullest
• dolefulest

Synonyms for doleful

Depending on context, synonyms include dolesome, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sad, mournful, funest, dolesome, sorrow-ridden, plaintive.

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