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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

doleful
    adj 1: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful
           expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
           [syn: doleful, mournful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

Thesaurus Results for Doleful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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