Thesaurus
dolefulness
Synonyms and Antonyms of dolefulness
- With the resigned dolefulness of an athlete who knows his playing days are over, he cleared out his locker for the last time.
blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness
- a period of dolefulness for the grieving family
affliction, anguish, dolor, grief, heartache, heartbreak, sorrow, woe
agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment
blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness
contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame
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