Doleful
['dəʊlfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['dolfl]
Definition
(adj.) filled with or evoking sadness; 'the child's doleful expression'; 'stared with mournful eyes'; 'mournful news' .
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Definition
(a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
Typist: Ronald
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Sorrowful, rueful, woful, piteous, melancholy, lugubrious, sad.[2]. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolorous, dolesome.
Checker: Michelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dolorous, rueful, melancholy, piteous, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, dismal
ANT:Merry, joyful, gay, blithe, beaming
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Examples
- A doleful place to be born and bred in, Tattycoram? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And what is more,' exclaimed Young John, surveying him in a doleful maze, 'he appears to mean it! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone hearth? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In a doleful voice Mrs. Bennet began the projected conversation: Oh! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- If he does go, the change will be doleful. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- What a doleful night! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A disturbed and doleful mind he brought to bear upon them, and slowly and heavily the day lagged on with him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He has been very silent and doleful of late. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Well, the squire was always merry, and the knight doleful; so I like you as the former more than the latter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- We had a doleful parting, and when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that that was my place henceforth while he lived. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Such an end of the doleful disappointment of five weeks back! Jane Austen. Emma.
- We sunk into silence: a silence that drank in the doleful accounts and prognostications of our guest. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The competition, however, of which they gave this doleful account, had not been allowed to be of long continuance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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