Doleful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DOLEFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• sad, full of woe
• expressing sorrow; mournful
• causing grief or misfortune
• dreary, unhappy
• Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
• filled with or evoking sadness

Words related to DOLEFUL

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How to use DOLEFUL in a sentence

• I comprehended, at once, that it was from this extraordinary sun that the place derived its doleful light.
• XIV In Communication Now of the search which we made through the valley for the body of Tompkins, that being the name of the lost man, I have some doleful memories.
• Save a few shells, I believe, near Pirbright, there is not a hint that a living being inhabited that doleful sea.
• But what made the thing he said sound even more doleful was that it was difficult for him to speak out.
• Then was heard a noise of rushing wings in the air, and I could just discern many strange figures hovering above the tower, uttering doleful cries and lamentations.
• While listening to these sad sounds, another, but more doleful and appalling noise, caught her ears.
• The brutal blow had made her freshness and her marvelous youth flit away with doleful suddenness.
• She also saw Gavinia looking admiringly at her man, and in that doleful moment she thought she understood all.
• Doleful voices, the clanking of chains, and the rushing of many feet to and fro, are heard through the darkness.
• It was not until he had spent a full hour in doleful self-commiseration, that his sense of worldliness came to his relief.
• With such fare and a keen appetite, a marvelous brand-new suit of clothes, and Cicely chattering gaily by his side, Nick could not be sulky or doleful long.
• Dick and Peterson reached the Gaol Quarry safely, and sat in doleful silence waiting for their mates, and wondering if any had been taken.
• The cries of sailors have always something doleful and prolonged in them, and were now rendered still more so by terror.
• The ancients took so much care to soften the idea of dissolution that they knew how to strip it of every thing that was doleful and repulsive.
• But more doleful than the bleak sea was sullen Picardy.
• This is in brief the doleful tale of the loyalist in the Deccan.
• He was by turn, serious, merry, doleful, witty, pathetic, humorous, ironical and gravely philosophic.
• It was a long, weary, and doleful journey, especially after he had gone beyond the habitations of men, but the Minor Canon kept on bravely, and never faltered.
• The louder he roared, and the more doleful the tune, the happier his frame of mind.
• At such times he was even known to begin to whistle some scrap of a doleful tune such as he used to hum.
• But I can proceed no further with the dismal recital of that doleful morning.
• Jesu mercy, said the king, where are all my noble knights become? Alas that ever I should see this doleful day, for now, said Arthur, I am come to mine end.
• All other ways in end will prove treacherous, and give the traveller a doleful and sad disappointment.
• Any occasion to see the splendid having Saturday is the one that makes a double doleful.
• Again he was secreted in his old doleful quarters, where he waited patiently for the Spring.
• For generations innocent Christians had been carried hither to pine in doleful captivity.
• It was amid these doleful sounds Archie swung his ax.

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