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dole⋅ful
[dohl-fuh
l] 
–adjective
| sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face. |
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Doleful
Dole"ful\, a. Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. --South. 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.
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Language Translation for : doleful
Spanish:
triste,
German:
traurig,
Japanese:
悲しげな
doleful
c.1275, from O.Fr. doel, from L.L. dolus "grief," from L. dolere "suffer, grieve."
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