'Dolefully' definitions:
Definition of 'dolefully'
(from WordNet)
adverb
With sadness; in a sorrowful manner; "his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army" [syn: dolefully, sorrowfully]
Definition of 'Dolefully'
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]