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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Doleful \Dole"ful\, a.
Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow;
sorrowful; sad; dismal.
With screwed face and doleful whine. --South.
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. --Milton.
Syn: Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad
gloomy; dismal; dolorous; woe-begone. - {Dole"ful*ly},
adv -- {Dole"ful*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
doleful
adj : filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful
expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful
news" [syn: {mournful}]
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