单词	doleful
释义	dolefuldole‧ful /ˈdəʊlfəl $ ˈdoʊl-/ adjective formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINdoleful Origin: 1200-1300 dole ‘sadness’ (13-19 centuries), from Latin dolere ‘to be sad’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a doleful look EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Baudelaire curled up on the chintz sofa and looked doleful. Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, doleful documentary none the less. So it was doubly doleful to me. There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the doleful northerner but boy, could he make you laugh. Yet the reading appeared to bring Emilia a kind of doleful peace. very sad:  a doleful song about lost love—dolefully adverb
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