Word "DOLEFUL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
filled with or evoking sadness
Synonyms:
mournful
Examples:
the child's doleful expression

Crossword Clues for DOLEFUL

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Sad (7) The Guardian Quick 05 Sep 2025
Cheerless Wall Street Journal 31 Jul 2025
Sad, melancholy (7)
Miserable handout almost complete (7)
Blue to fuel old conflict (7)
Party left fuel out - that's sad (7)
Unhappy though generously benefited? (7)
Sombre, Lou fled flummoxed (7)
Glum, miserable (7) Puzzler Backwords 15 Dec 2024
Sad, though loaded with unearned income? (7)
Loud elf unusually sad
Sad, glum The Times Concise 17 Sep 2024
Causing grief or misfortune
It is a sad old fuel mixture (7)
Dull foe is confused and sad (7)
Disastrous(7)
Melancholy when unemployment benefit's not entirely complete (7)
Give out when almost at capacity looking woebegone
Depressing affair with the French flu spreading The Telegraph Cryptic 12 Apr 2023
Gloomy and sad as an old failed Republican presidential candidate?
Sad unemployment benefit total reduced The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Nov 2021
Of sad countenance The Telegraph Quick 03 Feb 2021
Handout's only 75% complete, one's miserable 
Miserable benefit payment almost complete
Sorrowful Canadiana 28 Oct 2019
Despondent Family Time 01 Jul 2019
Causing sorrow The Washington Post Sunday 17 Feb 2019
Threatening to have party for graduate suffering grief
Down in the dumps with jobseeker's benefit and bad flu Irish Times Crosaire 21 Jul 2018
Lugubrious Canadiana 07 May 2018
Dismal The Telegraph Quick 22 Feb 2018
Joyless The Washington Post 18 Aug 2017
Joyless LA Times Daily 18 Aug 2017
Joyless
Financial support almost complete, still sad
Old flue needs replacing, that's sad
Blue mould left exposed, rotting
Given every benefit, perhaps, but not happy The Times Cryptic 14 Jul 2015
Despondent
Melancholy
Causing grief
Woebegone
Quite sad
Despondent
Despondent
Sad
Melancholy
Sad
Plaintive
Sad
Like a jeremiad.
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