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dolefully Definition


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doleful
adj
    1. Sad; expressing or suggesting sadness; mournful.
      Thesaurus: sad, mournful, melancholy, forlorn, gloomy, saturnine, funereal, dolorous, sorrowful, pathetic; Antonym: cheerful.
Derivative: dolefully
adverb
    Derivative: dolefulness
    noun
      Etymology: 13c as deolful: from French doel grief + -ful.



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