doleful
Use Doleful in a sentence
fəl adjective
sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
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doleful (ˈdəʊlfʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| Archaic word: dolesome dreary; mournful | |
| 'dolefully | |
| —adv | |
| 'dolefulness | |
| —n | |
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Doleful
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
doleful
late 13c., from O.Fr. doel, from L.L. dolus "grief," from L. dolere "suffer, grieve." Related: Dolefully.
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Example sentences
We asked of each other's welfare, bemoaning our doleful condition and the change that had come upon us.
But in the basement the mood was anything but doleful.
Burnished doves moan their doleful love songs and young men's fancies turn.
Even a sad story does not seem quite so doleful in this context.
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