Synonyms of doleful
- 1 Syllable
- sad, down
- 2 Syllables
- joyless, mopey, grieving, mournful, saddest, painful, forlorn, rueful, mirthless, beefing, sadder, piteous, moody, moodier, wretched, woeful, drearier, dolent, tragic, somber, dreary, cheerless, dismal, gloomy, downcast
- 3 Syllables
- crestfallen, despondent, pitiful, anguished, heartbroken, plaintive, threnodial, lugubrious, dirgeful, distressing, sorrowful, heartrending, heartsore, godawful, chapfallen, funereal, dejected, elegiac, afflicted, downhearted, splenetic, dolorous, depressed
- 4 Syllables
- down-in-the-mouth, woebegone, heavyhearted, dirgelike, lamentable, dolesome, dolorific, melancholy, dispirited, miserable
- 5 Syllables
- disconsolate