English to French Meaning of doleful - dolent


Doleful :
dolent

dolent, douloureux, peiné, pathétique, triste, élégiaque, pitoyable, misérable, lugubre, funérailles

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Definitions of doleful in English
Adjective(1) filled with or evoking sadness
Examples of doleful in English
(1) They're no less doleful when they see me going about alone.(2) There can be no joy in war: it is always repulsive in actual detail, but if we are not left with the facts, then the world is deprived even of doleful experience of the battlefield.(3) The final selection, ÔÇÿNight Prayers,ÔÇÖ is from Georgia, and has a doleful melody typical of traditional Russian music.(4) He said: ÔÇÿWe shall all miss her but it won't be a sad, doleful funeral.ÔÇÖ(5) The whole family filed into my surgery to thank me, bobbing and bowing, looking so doleful , then smiling.(6) Knowing nothing about my departure, the faithful animal still waited for me as usual, its eyes getting more doleful each day.(7) My parents' doleful reaction always struck me as odd.(8) Dream about snowflakes as the doleful synthesizers moan like winter winds.(9) In one, a lifelike depiction of a young man with doleful , melancholy eyes lies within the still, tightly bound wrappings of the mummy.(10) Bureaucracy plays its usual doleful part in the process, of course.(11) His voice, as doleful as his bloodhound eyes, is his trump card.(12) The old dilapidated building where the two women meet each other is made even more gloomy and doleful by an unexpected downpour.(13) His words filled hearts, turned eyes moist, and made many doleful as he saluted those who were not with us any longer as they laid down their lives for the country.(14) Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.(15) He looked at us searchingly, a doleful expression demanding our sympathy.(16) Apart from the house, only the doleful eyes of the writer are visible to the public in the caricature.
(1) dole out ::
distribuer
(2) be on the dole ::
Être sur le dole
Synonyms
Adjective
1. mournful ::
triste
2. woeful ::
triste
3. sorrowful ::
douloureux
4. sad ::
triste
5. unhappy ::
malheureux
6. depressed ::
déprimé
7. gloomy ::
sombre
8. morose ::
morose
9. melancholy ::
mélancolie
10. miserable ::
misérable
11. forlorn ::
désespéré
12. wretched ::
misérable
13. woebegone ::
désolé
14. despondent ::
découragé
15. dejected ::
abattu
16. disconsolate ::
inconsolable
17. downcast ::
abattu
18. crestfallen ::
découragé
19. downhearted ::
découragé
20. blue ::
bleu
22. down in the dumps ::
dans les décharges
23. dolorous ::
triste
24. heartsick ::
heartsick
Antonyms
1. blissful ::
bienheureux
2. buoyant ::
flottable
3. cheerful ::
de bonne humeur
4. cheery ::
gai
5. delighted ::
Enchanté
6. glad ::
content de
7. happy ::
content
8. jubilant ::
radieux
9. sunny ::
ensoleillé
Different Forms
doleful, dolefully, dolefulness
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