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Doleful Moderate

Doleful has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

filled with or evoking sadness

"the child's doleful expression"

"stared with mournful eyes"

"mournful news"

2

Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

Example Sentences
"the child's doleful expression" adjective
"stared with mournful eyes" adjective
"mournful news" adjective
See Also
dolefulness dolesome sadness mournful heavisome dolefully
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
awful woful urnful earful endful woeful cupful hueful dueful manful jugful aimful wilful aidful useful canful binful busful armful owlful
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