doleful

«doleful» in Mova's school dictionary: Very sad and gloomy, looking or sounding miserable — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (doleful; more doleful, most doleful)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very sad and gloomy, looking or sounding miserable. tree →

2) Causing sadness: «doleful news». tree →

sense in the lessons

A feeling word in stories and poems. It paints sad faces, sad songs and sad sounds. In Alice in Wonderland the Mock Turtle sings in a doleful voice, and in The Wind in the Willows Toad is doleful in prison.

examples

• The puppy gave me a doleful look. tree →
• The Mock Turtle sang a doleful song. tree →
• Toad sat in his cell looking doleful. tree →
• A doleful bell rang across the valley. tree →
• He told the doleful story of his lost kite. tree →
• The rain made the day feel doleful. tree →
• It was really a doleful garden for a princess. tree →

note

Adverb: dolefully. Similar: mournful, woeful, sorrowful. It sounds a little old-fashioned and literary.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «doleful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.