dolesome

Adj

• doleful; dismal; gloomy.

Adjective

• Causing grief or sadness; mournful.

Examples

• The score difference was so vast, it left his opponent with a dolesome feeling about the Words With Friends match.

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Related Words

dolesomely, dolesomeness