What is another word for doleful?
477 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dˈə͡ʊlfə͡l], [ dˈəʊlfəl], [ d_ˈəʊ_l_f_əl]
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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)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- piteous (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- sad (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
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.
- down and out,
- tragic,
- sorrowful,
- heart-rending,
- joyless,
- on a downer,
- miserable,
- Dolorific,
- dreary,
- full of sorrow,
- in mourning,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- dejected,
- woeful,
- griefstricken,
- heavyhearted,
- down in dumps,
- dismal,
- heartrending,
- Dolesome,
- beefing,
- lugubrious,
- afflicted,
- cast-down,
- downcast,
- sick at heart,
- Commiserable,
- mournful,
- torn up,
- plaintive,
- bummed-out,
- have the blahs,
- down in mouth,
- god-awful,
- in a huff,
- anguished,
- in despair,
- in sorrow,
- in doldrums,
- no nonsense,
- in the doldrums,
- heartsore,
- in blue funk,
- godawful,
- disconsolate,
- moody,
- Dolent,
- dolorous,
- torn-up,
- heartbroken,
- lamentable,
- in pain,
- grousing,
- piteous,
- dark.
- 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.
• Other relevant words: (noun) • 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.
How to use "Doleful" in context?
The word doleful is often used to describe someone or something that makes you feel sad or hopeless. Doleful can also refer to something that makes a sad, mournful sound. Sometimes doleful is used to describe something that is characteristic of the season, such as dolefully colored leaves in fall.
Homophones for Doleful:
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