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Definition of doleful in English: dolefuladjective ˈdəʊlf(ə)lˈdəʊlfʊlˈdoʊlfəl 1Expressing sorrow; mournful. Example sentencesExamples - Knowing nothing about my departure, the faithful animal still waited for me as usual, its eyes getting more doleful each day.
- However, even he sounds a little doleful when the subject is brought up.
- It reminded me suddenly of the reason why people say that the bell in Nanjing tends to be more doleful than those in other cities.
- They're no less doleful when they see me going about alone.
- Along the way they find the time to take in a Blind Willie Johnson blues number, a doleful love song in French and an old-time Appalachian ditty.
- His words filled hearts, turned eyes moist, and made many doleful as he saluted those who were not with us any longer as they laid down their lives for the country.
- In one, a lifelike depiction of a young man with doleful, melancholy eyes lies within the still, tightly bound wrappings of the mummy.
- Apart from the house, only the doleful eyes of the writer are visible to the public in the caricature.
- Fairground organ ditties blaring from food stalls soon gave way to the doleful strains of a whiny brass band playing funeral music.
- Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
- He looked at us searchingly, a doleful expression demanding our sympathy.
- The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour.
- His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.
- My parents' doleful reaction always struck me as odd.
- He said: ‘We shall all miss her but it won't be a sad, doleful funeral.’
- Nicholas watched her with his doleful blue eyes as she walked away.
- The final selection, ‘Night Prayers,’ is from Georgia, and has a doleful melody typical of traditional Russian music.
- The whole family filed into my surgery to thank me, bobbing and bowing, looking so doleful, then smiling.
- Dream about snowflakes as the doleful synthesizers moan like winter winds.
- There were just a few doleful looking people sitting in chairs who were outnumbered by the armed security guards protecting the X-Ray machine and metal detector while striving to provide quality service to their customers.
Synonyms mournful, woeful, sorrowful, sad, unhappy, depressed, dismal, gloomy, morose, melancholy, miserable, forlorn, wretched, woebegone, despondent, dejected, disconsolate, downcast, crestfallen, downhearted, heartbroken, heavy-hearted, despairing, desolate, grief-stricken tearful, teary, lachrymose informal blue, down, down in the mouth, down in the dumps, weepy literary dolorous archaic heartsick, heartsore - 1.1 Causing grief or misfortune.
he could be struck off, with doleful consequences Example sentencesExamples - There can be no joy in war: it is always repulsive in actual detail, but if we are not left with the facts, then the world is deprived even of doleful experience of the battlefield.
- Bureaucracy plays its usual doleful part in the process, of course.
Derivatives adverb ˈdəʊlfʊliˈdəʊlf(ə)liˈdoʊlfəli We could throw around the words ‘reprehensible’ and ‘deplorable’ and dolefully express our great disappointment in his leadership. Example sentencesExamples - Thus, in Die Walküre you feel something dolefully inevitable in the social restrictions on human will that allegorically require the break between the paternal god and his illegitimate warrior daughter.
- We decide on a scorpion fish, a rich ruby red, its spiky fins laid harmlessly by its side, its wide round eye staring up at us dolefully.
- Yes, one can hear Shostakovich and Prokofiev, particularly in their most dolefully melodic moods, and I understand that Latvian folk elements have been used as well.
- The paramedics hustle the stricken woman within the hold of the emergency vehicle, close the doors, climb inside, and pull away from the cul-de-sac with the boisterous and dolefully sustained wail of sirens.
nounˈdəʊlfʊlnəsˈdəʊlf(ə)lnəsˈdoʊlfəlnəs The tale has many tragic turns but he and his cast largely forego the high-minded dolefulness in favour of camp theatrics. Example sentencesExamples - The widespread topiary is part of the national trend towards dolefulness in appearance and attitude.
- Between them, her bright hair in a tumble down the flying tangerine dispersal of her cloak, the Magdalene prostrates herself like an alighted butterfly, the amber splendours of her hands outstretched in her dolefulness.
Definition of doleful in US English: dolefuladjectiveˈdōlfəlˈdoʊlfəl 1Expressing sorrow; mournful. Example sentencesExamples - The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour.
- In one, a lifelike depiction of a young man with doleful, melancholy eyes lies within the still, tightly bound wrappings of the mummy.
- The final selection, ‘Night Prayers,’ is from Georgia, and has a doleful melody typical of traditional Russian music.
- However, even he sounds a little doleful when the subject is brought up.
- Nicholas watched her with his doleful blue eyes as she walked away.
- He said: ‘We shall all miss her but it won't be a sad, doleful funeral.’
- There were just a few doleful looking people sitting in chairs who were outnumbered by the armed security guards protecting the X-Ray machine and metal detector while striving to provide quality service to their customers.
- Apart from the house, only the doleful eyes of the writer are visible to the public in the caricature.
- The whole family filed into my surgery to thank me, bobbing and bowing, looking so doleful, then smiling.
- His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.
- They're no less doleful when they see me going about alone.
- Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
- Knowing nothing about my departure, the faithful animal still waited for me as usual, its eyes getting more doleful each day.
- He looked at us searchingly, a doleful expression demanding our sympathy.
- His words filled hearts, turned eyes moist, and made many doleful as he saluted those who were not with us any longer as they laid down their lives for the country.
- Along the way they find the time to take in a Blind Willie Johnson blues number, a doleful love song in French and an old-time Appalachian ditty.
- It reminded me suddenly of the reason why people say that the bell in Nanjing tends to be more doleful than those in other cities.
- My parents' doleful reaction always struck me as odd.
- Dream about snowflakes as the doleful synthesizers moan like winter winds.
- Fairground organ ditties blaring from food stalls soon gave way to the doleful strains of a whiny brass band playing funeral music.
Synonyms mournful, woeful, sorrowful, sad, unhappy, depressed, dismal, gloomy, morose, melancholy, miserable, forlorn, wretched, woebegone, despondent, dejected, disconsolate, downcast, crestfallen, downhearted, heartbroken, heavy-hearted, despairing, desolate, grief-stricken - 1.1 Causing grief or misfortune.
Example sentencesExamples - There can be no joy in war: it is always repulsive in actual detail, but if we are not left with the facts, then the world is deprived even of doleful experience of the battlefield.
- Bureaucracy plays its usual doleful part in the process, of course.
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