doleful Definition

mournful, sad, funest, lugubrious, sorrowful, melancholy, plaintive, morose, dolorous, rueful, forlorn, wistful, melancholic, piteous, funereal, pensive, sombre, plangent, somber, lachrymose, glum, sullen, dreary, elegiac, portentous, reproachful, grim, poignant, weepy, joyless, quavery, baleful, jaunty, threnetic, wailful, hangdog, sepulchral, epicedian, haunting, tremulous, droll, mellifluous, toneless, sonorous, pallid, epicedial, bathetic, twinkly, dulcet, affectless, desultory, sardonic, dreamy, leaden, easeful, stentorian, wry, beatific, cadaverous, cheery, languorous, careworn, mirthless, tenebrous, moony, mawkish, maudlin, trembly, wheezy, ruminative, beguiling, chirpy, incantatory, dirgelike, saturnine, florid, somnambulistic, bleary, gleeful, sibilant, dour, resonant, anguished, croaky, grumbly, unpoetic, dickensian, languid, deadpan, uninflected, pitying, soporific, whispery, muzzy, sententious, orotund, nabokovian, reedy, winsome, mumpish,