Crossword-Solution: DOLEFUL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Doleful | a. | Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. |
We have 108 clues for the answer “DOLEFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Causing sadness | 1 answer |
| Like a jeremiad. | 1 answer |
| Quite sad | 2 answers |
| Causing grief | 3 answers |
| Very sad | 7 answers |
| Somber | 11 answers |
| intellectually slow | 13 answers |
| discouraged | 18 answers |
| dolorous | 24 answers |
| pitying | 24 answers |
| "Tragic" | 26 answers |
| Regrettable | 27 answers |
| heartbreaking | 27 answers |
| plaintive | 28 answers |
| Regretful | 28 answers |
| repentant | 29 answers |
| Woebegone | 29 answers |
| Pessimistic | 30 answers |
| afflictive | 31 answers |
| Contrite | 31 answers |
| Penitent | 31 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| heartsick | 32 answers |
| drowsy | 33 answers |
| grieved | 35 answers |
| regretting | 35 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| apologetic | 37 answers |
| comfortless | 37 answers |
| unhopeful | 38 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| humourless | 46 answers |
| disheartened | 47 answers |
| remorseful | 49 answers |
| Droopy | 49 answers |
| funereal | 50 answers |
| joyless | 50 answers |
| dispirited | 51 answers |
| sorrowing | 52 answers |
| melancholic | 53 answers |
| Cheerless | 55 answers |
| Sadden | 56 answers |
| Unsmiling | 57 answers |
| Depressed | 57 answers |
| Crestfallen | 58 answers |
| Sorry | 58 answers |
| Rueful | 58 answers |
| disappointed | 58 answers |
| deplorable | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DOLEFUL (5)
And there was such a solemn melody, ’Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,— Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with.
She must laugh at such a close! Such an end of the doleful disappointment of five weeks back! Such a heart—such a Harriet! Now there would be pleasure in her returning—Every thing would be a pleasure.
The little June wind, frisking down the street, shook the doleful fringes of the Hatchard spruces, caught the straw hat of a young man just passing under them, and spun it clean across the road into the duck-pond.
You were in such very good spirits that I thought you might grant my little favor then; not that you look particularly doleful now.
The council have established headquarters there.” Their conversation was interrupted by the ringing of a little bell, and the doleful supplications of a priest followed by a crowd of idle men and women.
Quotes with DOLEFUL (3)
Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
Christ is all in the entire work of salvation. Let me just take you back to the period before this world was made. There was a time when this great world, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all which now exist throughout the whole of the vast universe, lay in the mind of God, like unborn forests in an acorn cup. There was a time when the Great Creator lived alone, and yet he could foresee that he would make a world, and that men would be born to people it; and in that vast ete…
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1957–2025).