doleful• Baudelaire curled up on the chintzsofa and looked doleful.• Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, dolefuldocumentary none the less.• a doleful look• There was never anything sophisticated or subtle about the dolefulnortherner but boy, could he make you laugh.• Yet the reading appeared to bring Emilia a kind of dolefulpeace.• So it was doubly doleful to me.
Origindoleful
(1200-1300)dole“sadness”((13-19 centuries)), from Latindolere“to be sad”