dolesome

  • 11doleful — a. 1. Sorrowful, rueful, woful, piteous, melancholy, jugubrious, sad. 2. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolorous, dolesome …

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  • 12dolorous — [adj] miserable, anguished afflicted, afflictive, calamitous, deplorable, dire, distressing, doleful, dolent, dolesome, grievous, harrowing, heart rending, lamentable, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, painful, plaintive, regrettable, rueful,… …

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  • 13doleful — [dōl′səmdōl′fəl] adj. [ME dolful < dol, grief (< OFr doel < VL dolus, grief, pain < L dolere, to suffer < IE base * del , *dol , to split, cut) + ful, FUL] full of or causing sorrow or sadness; mournful; melancholy: also Rare… …

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  • 14dolesomely — adverb see dolesome * * * doleˈsomely adverb • • • Main Entry: ↑dole …

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