doleful

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• filled with or evoking sadness
  • "the child's doleful expression"

Adj

• Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched