adjective
definition
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
example
The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.
Examples of doleful in a Sentence
In wealthy households ceremonial mourners would be hired to look suitably doleful.
If they mistakenly selected a pair of numbers which did not total 10, it was met with a rather doleful ' moo ' !
These days stand statuesque, They do not meet your gaze, Nor the doleful hunt of eyes for love Among stale upholstery.
Toll on, thou passing bell; Ring out my doleful knell; Let thy sound my death tell.
In a few of the older districts, too, where land is least valuable, there are antique one-storeyed houses, surrounded by poplars and acacias; while the gipsies and Rumans, wearing their brightly coloured native costumes, the Russian coachmen, or sleighdrivers, of the banished Lipovan sect, and the pedlars, with their doleful street cries, render Bucharest unlike any western capital.
What doleful sight, what ruthful spectacle Hath fortune offered to my hapless heart?
Equally striking, yet tuneful, is the doleful grim atmosphere of Two Crows which follows immediately.
There is no positive evidence of any measures taken or threatened against him; but it is certain that he passed nearly the whole of 1546 and part of 1547 at Metz in Lorraine as physician to the town at the salary of 120 livres, and Sturm speaks of him as having been "cast out of France by the times" (with the exclamation c56 TLilv xpovwv) in a contemporary letter, and says that he himself in another letter gives a doleful account of his pecuniary affairs and asks for assistance.