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单词 dolefully
释义

doleful

adjective

dole·​ful ˈdōl-fəl How to pronounce doleful (audio)
1
: full of grief : cheerless
a doleful face
2
: expressing grief : sad
a doleful melody
3
: causing grief or affliction
a doleful loss
dolefully
ˈdōl-fə-lē How to pronounce doleful (audio)
adverb
dolefulness noun

Synonyms

  • aching
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitter
  • deploring
  • dolesome
  • dolorous
  • funeral
  • grieving
  • heartbroken
  • lamentable
  • lugubrious
  • mournful
  • plaintive
  • plangent
  • regretful
  • rueful
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • woeful
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Example Sentences

The girl had a doleful look on her face. You sounded so doleful about your future that night.
Recent Examples on the Web In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a quintessential character actor, a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble gravitas. Jake Coyle, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022 With his raspy delivery, grizzled hair and doleful face, Hall excelled as government and military officials with urgent agendas as well as Hollywood and business executives with ulterior motives. Adam Bernstein, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2022 With his raspy delivery, grizzled hair and doleful face, Mr. Hall excelled as government and military officials with urgent agendas as well as Hollywood and business executives with ulterior motives. Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 13 June 2022 In a career spanning half a century, Hall was a ubiquitous hangdog face whose doleful, weary appearance could shroud a booming intensity and humble sensitivity. Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2022 Quixotic is a mild term for the compulsions that grip these people, and their adventures are more harrowing than anything Cervantes’s knight of the doleful countenance ever experienced. A. O. Scott, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022 Her passionate and doleful appeal was one of many made in the last few days by Ukrainian athletes after their races had ended, a far cry from their normal upbeat and buoyant mood after victory. New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022 Freezing winter in a place designed for frolicsome summer can be a doleful time. Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022 McKay cast his doleful satire of climate change denial and MAGA belligerence with seemingly half the available members of the Screen Actors Guild. Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

see dole entry 1

First Known Use

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 3

Kids Definition

doleful

adjective

dole·​ful ˈdōl-fəl How to pronounce doleful (audio)
: very sad
a doleful day

dolefully

adverb

as in sorrowfully
with feelings of bitterness or grief the novelist dolefully remarked that the proceeds from his last book would scarcely buy a dollhouse, let alone a real house

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • sorrowfully
  • bitterly
  • mournfully
  • sadly
  • painfully
  • lugubriously
  • ruefully
  • plaintively
  • unhappily
  • resentfully
  • dolorously
  • regretfully
  • sharply
  • hard
  • harshly
  • woefully
  • inconsolably
  • wretchedly
  • grievously
  • agonizingly
  • wailfully
  • dejectedly
  • dispiritedly
  • despairingly
  • despondently
  • sorely
  • disconsolately
  • glumly
  • morosely
  • forlornly
  • severely
  • gloomily
  • cheerlessly
  • sullenly
  • somberly
  • distressfully
  • drearily
  • dourly
  • abjectly
  • dismally
  • joylessly
  • mirthlessly
  • miserably
  • darkly
  • pessimistically
  • hardly
  • blackly
  • poignantly
  • distressingly
  • cruelly
  • acutely
  • keenly
  • piercingly
  • downheartedly
  • hurtfully
  • ill
  • low-spiritedly
  • crestfallenly
  • rancorously

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • happily
  • joyfully
  • joyously
  • cheerfully
  • cheerily
  • gaily
  • delightedly
  • blissfully
  • gayly
  • merrily
  • mirthfully
  • gladly
  • gleefully
  • sunnily
  • lightheartedly
  • unconcernedly
  • impassively
  • indifferently
  • rejoicingly
  • calmly
  • stoically
  • blithely
  • nonchalantly
  • casually
  • dispassionately
  • good-naturedly
  • lightly
  • easily
  • favorably
  • well
  • blithesomely
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