doleful
Meaning of doleful
adjective
- Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.
Information about doleful
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of doleful is: dolefuls.
- Languages in which doleful is used:
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Hyphenation of doleful
dole-ful
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- doleful is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
doleful synonyms
Meaning mournful:
Translation of doleful
- French: chagrin, triste, affligé, morne, attristé, peiné, chagriné
- German: trübe, unglücklich, traurig, bedrückt, niedergeschlagen, trübselig, trübsinnig, geknickt, trist, trüb, betrübt, unfroh, bekümmert
- Italian: triste, infelice, rattristato
- Spanish: triste, afligido, apesadumbrado, infeliz
- Portuguese: triste
Words that rhyme with doleful
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