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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
dolefulness — index depression, pessimism Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
dolefulness — noun see doleful … New Collegiate Dictionary
dolefulness — See dolefully. * * * … Universalium
dolefulness — noun The characteristic of being doleful; sadness … Wiktionary
dolefulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in… … English dictionary for students
dolefulness — dole·ful·ness || dəʊlfnɪs n. sadness, woefulness … English contemporary dictionary
dolefulness — dole·ful·ness … English syllables
dolefulness — noun sadness caused by grief or affliction • Derivationally related forms: ↑doleful • Hypernyms: ↑sadness, ↑unhappiness … Useful english dictionary
depression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. recession, slowdown. II Pressing downward Nouns 1. depression, lowering; dip (see concavity); abasement, debasement; reduction. 2. overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,… … English dictionary for students
doleful — adjective Date: 13th century 1. causing grief or affliction < a doleful loss > 2. full of grief ; cheerless < a doleful face > 3. expressing grief ; sad < a doleful melody > • … New Collegiate Dictionary
