Usually means: Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholic.
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  1. doleful: Merriam-Webster
  2. doleful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. doleful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. doleful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. doleful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Doleful, doleful: Wordnik
  7. doleful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. doleful: Wiktionary
  9. doleful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. doleful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. doleful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Doleful, doleful: Dictionary.com
  13. doleful: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. doleful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Doleful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. doleful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. doleful: Rhymezone
  18. doleful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. doleful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. doleful: FreeDictionary.org
  21. doleful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. doleful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. doleful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doleful: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. doleful: A Word A Day

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adjective:  Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

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