DOLEFUL Synonyms

• causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• affected or marked by low spirits

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• very unhappy; full of misery

• morally reprehensible

• deserving or inciting pity