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单词 doleful
释义
doleful
adjective
uk
/ˈdəʊl.fəl/us
/ˈdoʊl.fəl/
verysad:
悲伤的，哀伤的
a dolefulexpression哀伤的表情
Synonyms
blue(SAD)informal
dejected
depressed
despondent
dispirited
dolorousliterary
down
downcast
downhearted
(down) in thedumps
gloomy
gluminformal
low
low-spirited
melancholy
miserable(UNHAPPY)
mournful
plaintive
sad(NOT HAPPY)
sorrowfulliterary
the doldrumsinformal
unhappy
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feeling sad and unhappy
  • a dog's lifeidiom
  • angsty
  • be cut upidiom
  • be down in the mouthidiom
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be in bitsidiom
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • dog
  • dolefully
  • lovelorn
  • lovesick
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • lugubriously
  • wistfully
  • woe
  • woe is meidiom
  • woebegone
  • woeful
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dolefully
(Definition ofdolefulfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

doleful| American Dictionary

doleful
adjective
us
/ˈdoʊl·fəl/
verysad:
a dolefulexpression/look
(Definition ofdolefulfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdoleful

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Thedolefulprophecies of that time were the main arguments adduced to scare those who were inclined to vote for this change.
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Now we are putting a vicious new twist into thedolefulprocess that both parties have been engaged in for the past 50 years.
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In page 16 of their report they indulge in a verydolefulcriticism of the effect of labour-saving machinery upon labour.
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As it was a message of hope, he need not have been sodoleful.
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Against the background of thosedolefulfigures, the £60 million cut in regional aid is deplorable.
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We heard the melancholy anddolefultale of the coal trade.
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It is very possible, moreover, that today or tomorrow we will continue to add to thisdolefullist.
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All thedolefulconsequences which we were told would follow have not followed.
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If there had not been a freeze, causing the advertisers to withdraw, we should not be speaking in thesedolefulterms to-day.
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One barrier is looming and yet to come, but the other already exercises a profound anddolefulinfluence over the industry.
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The farmers there are having the mostdolefultime that can be imagined.
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I now come to the beginning of thisdolefulexperience which has come upon us, and has existed from 1920 to this day.
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You cannot appeal to good intentions fordolefulcompetition and a profit monocracy.
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On this occasion he was rather in adolefulmood.
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That is one of the mostdolefuland terrible prospects with respect to our armaments during peace.
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