Synonyms for Doleful:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • doleful.
  •black (adjective)
  • sinister,
  • gloomy,
  • atrocious,
  • dispiriting,
  • sombre,
  • foreboding,
  • horrible,
  • oppressive,
  • depressing,
  • threatening,
  • sombrer,
  • depressive,
  • ominous.
  •dark (adjective)
  • morbid,
  • drab,
  • morose,
  • unpropitious.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • 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.
  •despondent (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • despairing,
  • mourning,
  • in a blue funk.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • distressed,
  • ripped,
  • bad,
  • blue,
  • crushed,
  • destroyed,
  • grief-stricken,
  • inconsolable,
  • desolate,
  • comfortless,
  • cold.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • 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.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • crestfallen,
  • distressing,
  • downhearted,
  • dispirited,
  • down,
  • funereal,
  • cheerless,
  • Dirgeful,
  • somber,
  • pitiful,
  • forlorn,
  • depressed,
  • sad,
  • grieving,
  • down in the mouth,
  • painful.
  •dolorous (adjective)
  • dire,
  • calamitous,
  • harrowing,
  • ruthful.
  •downcast (adjective)
  • oppressed,
  • weighed down,
  • singing the blues,
  • sunk,
  • daunted,
  • dismayed,
  • troubled,
  • chapfallen,
  • down-in-the-mouth,
  • disappointed,
  • heartsick,
  • listless.
  •dreary (adjective)
  • uninteresting,
  • pedestrian,
  • blah,
  • humdrum,
  • wearisome,
  • lonely,
  • raw,
  • uneventful,
  • colorless,
  • windy,
  • wintry,
  • damp,
  • routine.
  •elegiac (adjective)
  • most threnodial,
  • more threnodial,
  • threnodial.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • dirgelike.
  •heartbroken (adjective)
  • more heartsore,
  • most heartsore.
  •heartrending (adjective)
  • heartsickening.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • more depressant,
  • most depressant,
  • more saddening,
  • most saddening,
  • have blahs.
  •lamentable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •lamenting (adjective)
  • elegiac.
  •lugubrious (adjective)
  • Woful.
  •melancholy (adjective)
  • more mirthless,
  • most mirthless,
  • more saddened,
  • most saddened,
  • down out.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •moody (adjective)
  • 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.
  •mournful (adjective)
  • full sorrow,
  • be-reft,
  • be reft.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  •piteous (adjective)
  • most entreating,
  • most commiserable,
  • most imploring,
  • more beseeching,
  • most supplicating,
  • most beseeching,
  • more commiserable,
  • more entreating,
  • more imploring,
  • more supplicating.
  •plaintive (adjective)
  • most bellyaching,
  • wailing,
  • most grousing,
  • more wailing,
  • most wailing,
  • more beefing,
  • more bellyaching,
  • more grousing,
  • most beefing.
  •sad (adjective)
  • most grieved,
  • sick heart,
  • more bereaved,
  • be reaved,
  • most bereaved,
  • more grieved,
  • in dumps,
  • be-reaved.
  •somber (adjective)
  • nononsense,
  • most sourpuss,
  • more sourpuss.
  •sorrowful (adjective)
  • heavy hearted.
  •tragic (adjective)
  • illfated,
  • illstarred,
  • most crushing,
  • more crushing,
  • ill fated,
  • ill-starred,
  • ill starred.
  •woebegone (adjective)
  • long-faced.
  •woeful (adjective)
  • dis graceful,
  • dis-appointing,
  • dis-graceful,
  • in adequate,
  • in-adequate,
  • dis appointing.

• n.

  •
  • curious,
  • absent,
  • darkly,
  • bleak,
  • bug-eyed,
  • appealing,
  • beatific,
  • black,
  • brooding.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • feeling,
  • grief.
  •sad (noun)
  • study at sad.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • grievous,
  • regrettable.
  •
  • woebegone,
  • rueful,
  • deplorable.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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:

• adj.

  • black
    hopeful, optimistic.
  • dark
    brilliant, bright, encouraging, shining.
  • dejected
    encouraged, joyous.
  • despondent
    spirited, up.
  • disconsolate
    Soothed, Solaced, Consoled.
  • dismal
    light, pleasant.
  • doleful
    elated, glad, gleeful, happy, joyful, cheerful.
  • dolorous
    cheery.
  • downcast
    satisfied, heartened.
  • dreary
    clear.
  • 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.

Homophones for Doleful:

• delible, diluvial, detail file, dolefully, Delhi Boil.