English Explanatory Dictionary

dolefully

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv

In a doleful manner

Word forms

dolefully more dolefully most dolefully

Etymology

From Middle English dolfully, dolefulliche, deolfulliche, equivalent to doleful + -ly.

Synonyms

deplorably dolorously grievously lamentably lugubriously mournfully plaintively regrettably ruefully sadly sorrowfully woefully

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