Doleful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Doleful \Dole"ful\, a.
     Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow;
     sorrowful; sad; dismal.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           With screwed face and doleful whine.     --South.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           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.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "doleful":
     affecting, afflicted, aggrieved, anguished, blue, careworn,
     cast down, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, depressing,
     disconsolate, dispirited, distressed, distressing, dolorous, down,
     down-in-the-mouth, downhearted, dreary, dumb with grief, forlorn,
     funereal, gloomy, grief-stricken, griefful, 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