Doleful
Doleful adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: the visibly doleful players, heartbroken about their loss
Melancholic is a synonym for doleful. In some cases you can use "Melancholic" instead an adjective "Doleful".
Nearby Word: dolefully
Melancholic
Melancholic adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: she becomes quite melancholic when she reflects on all the lost opportunities of her life
Nearby Words: melancholy, melancholia
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- down and doleful
- down and melancholic
- melancholy and doleful
- melancholy and melancholic
- dismal and doleful
- dismal and melancholic
- woeful and doleful
- woeful and melancholic
- downcast and doleful
- downcast and melancholic
- dejected and doleful
- dejected and melancholic
- depressed and doleful
- depressed and melancholic
Both words in one sentence
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Jovian is enthusiastic and cheerful (sanguine), Bruce is a Hot-Blooded Jerkass (choleric), Keyser is an analytical and perfectionistic chessmaster (melancholic), Leonius is a doleful Butt Monkey (supine), and Eander is middle-of-the-road phlegmatic.
Source: Video Game / Exit Fate
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