What is another word for doleful?
419 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dˈə͡ʊlfə͡l], [ dˈəʊlfəl], [ d_ˈəʊ_l_f_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for doleful:- all (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- despondent (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dolorous (adjective)
- downcast (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- elegiac (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- heartbroken (adjective)
- heartrending (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- lamenting (adjective)
- lugubrious (adjective)
- melancholy (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- mournful (adjective)
- piteous (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- sad (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Doleful:
adj.
•all (adjective) •black (adjective)- sinister,
- gloomy,
- atrocious,
- dispiriting,
- sombre,
- foreboding,
- horrible,
- oppressive,
- depressing,
- threatening,
- sombrer,
- depressive,
- ominous.
- morbid,
- drab,
- morose,
- unpropitious.
- disheartened,
- low,
- in the pits,
- Dragged,
- Dampened,
- abject,
- spiritless,
- Mopish,
- hurting,
- atrabilious,
- droopy,
- sagging,
- dashed,
- cast down,
- broody,
- mopey,
- glum,
- drooping,
- down in the dumps,
- clouded,
- all torn up,
- wretched,
- discouraged,
- despondent,
- bummed out,
- shot down,
- low-spirited.
- distressed,
- ripped,
- bad,
- blue,
- crushed,
- destroyed,
- grief-stricken,
- inconsolable,
- desolate,
- comfortless,
- cold.
- overcast,
- ghastly,
- disagreeable,
- tedious,
- murky,
- unfortunate,
- horrid,
- dull,
- lonesome,
- frowning,
- dim,
- afflictive,
- lowering,
- monotonous,
- inauspicious,
- disheartening,
- unhappy,
- shadowy,
- tenebrous,
- troublesome,
- gruesome,
- boring,
- dingy,
- cloudy,
- discouraging.
- crestfallen,
- distressing,
- downhearted,
- dispirited,
- down,
- funereal,
- cheerless,
- Dirgeful,
- somber,
- pitiful,
- forlorn,
- depressed,
- sad,
- grieving,
- down in the mouth,
- painful.
- oppressed,
- weighed down,
- singing the blues,
- sunk,
- daunted,
- dismayed,
- troubled,
- chapfallen,
- down-in-the-mouth,
- disappointed,
- heartsick,
- listless.
- uninteresting,
- pedestrian,
- blah,
- humdrum,
- wearisome,
- lonely,
- raw,
- uneventful,
- colorless,
- windy,
- wintry,
- damp,
- routine.
- un satisfactory,
- more godawful,
- god awful,
- more god awful,
- most god-awful,
- un favorable,
- un-favorable,
- un-satisfactory,
- most godawful,
- most god awful,
- more god-awful.
- more agonized,
- more suffering,
- most tortured,
- most anguished,
- pained,
- most racked,
- more tormented,
- more racked,
- dis contented,
- most tormented,
- most suffering,
- dis-contented,
- more anguished,
- wounded,
- on downer,
- more tortured,
- Racked,
- most discontented,
- most agonized.
- more splenetic,
- more ill-humored,
- in huff,
- splenetic,
- ill tempered,
- short tempered,
- more moping,
- more piqued,
- most splenetic,
- more ill humored,
- shorttempered,
- illhumored,
- most piqued,
- out sorts,
- ill-humored,
- more illhumored,
- most ill humored,
- introspective,
- most ill-humored,
- most moping,
- most illhumored,
- illtempered,
- ill humored.
- most entreating,
- most commiserable,
- most imploring,
- more beseeching,
- most supplicating,
- most beseeching,
- more commiserable,
- more entreating,
- more imploring,
- more supplicating.
- most bellyaching,
- wailing,
- most grousing,
- more wailing,
- most wailing,
- more beefing,
- more bellyaching,
- more grousing,
- most beefing.
n.
•sad (noun)Other synonyms:
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- grievous,
- regrettable.
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- woebegone,
- rueful,
- deplorable.
- unhappily,
- pessimistic,
- Subfuscous,
- weeping,
- sadness,
- emotional,
- hapless,
- agonized,
- Saddened,
- sorrowing,
- mourn,
- encourage,
- lackadaisical,
- solemn,
- poignant,
- grave,
- keen,
- despondently,
- aggrieved,
- heavy-hearted,
- Deploring,
- mournfully,
- pitifully,
- dejectedly,
- sadly,
- Griefful,
- heavy-laden,
- out of humor,
- Lacrymose,
- pathetically,
- devastated,
- wistful,
- miserably,
- misery,
- plangent,
- Moping,
- unfortunately,
- regretful,
- sober,
- bittersweet,
- misfortune,
- lachrymose,
- grumble,
- disappointment,
- weary,
- woefully,
- melancholic,
- unlucky,
- sullen,
- sepulchral,
- despondency,
- ruefully,
- grim,
- overcome,
- brokenhearted,
- Sorrowed,
- ill at ease,
- discomfort,
- overwhelmed,
- sour,
- in low spirits,
- pessimism,
- gloom,
- Grieved,
- Broken-hearted,
- pitiable,
- emotive,
- expressing sorrow,
- commiserate,
- tristful,
- despair,
- aching,
- deplore,
- affective,
- wretchedness,
- serious,
- bitter,
- bilious,
- cry,
- stirring,
- distressful,
- out of spirits,
- blues,
- gloominess,
- Doloroso,
- piteously,
- Dumpish,
- complain,
- drear,
- sinking,
- depression,
- consider,
- in the dumps,
- subfusc,
- sorry,
- Mumpish,
- pensive,
- funeral,
- touching,
- Star-crossed,
- bitterness,
- heart-breaking,
- sorrowfully,
- louring,
- sulky,
- dolour,
- dejection,
- Darksome,
- upset,
- pensively,
- dolefully,
- desolation,
- dolefulness,
- admire,
- chap-fallen,
- droop,
- condole,
- tearful,
- somberly,
- grieve for,
- Bewailing,
- grievously,
- lamentably,
- carry on,
- anguish,
- grieve,
- cry for,
- saturnine,
- troublous,
- discontented,
- affecting,
- lovesick,
- prostrate,
- careworn,
- wretchedly,
- fret,
- in tears,
- stricken,
- in grief,
- moving,
- hypochondriacal,
- agony,
- Desponding,
- pathetic,
- affliction,
- dour,
- jaundiced,
- forlornly,
- heart-broken,
- distress,
- gloomily,
- chopfallen,
- grim-faced,
- penseroso.
Antonyms for Doleful:
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adj.
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black
hopeful, optimistic.
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dark
brilliant, bright, encouraging, shining.
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dejected
encouraged, joyous.
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dolorous
cheery.
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dreary
clear.
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Other antonyms:
sanguine, thrilled, zippy, rejoicing, unconcerned, cavalier, gladdened, buoyant, bouncing, grinning, vivacious, jubilant, insouciant, energetic, upbeat, lighthearted, peppy, sprightly, frisky, jaunty, animated, exulting, gladsome, exuberant, cheering, beaming, happy-go-lucky, springy, boon, content, devil-may-care, exultant, easygoing, carefree, triumphant, rosy, lightsome, careless, smiling, lively, Buoyed, perky, overjoyed, vital, excited, Sprightful, chipper.
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black