'Doleful' definitions:
Definition of 'doleful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news" [syn: doleful, mournful]
Definition of 'Doleful'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'doleful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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