Synonyms:
doleful, mournful
Meaning: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
Usage examples
"And how do you know that?" the prisoner asked, with a doleful look.
"That's a doleful remark for a girl nineteen years old to make," replied Rose.
I comprehended, at once, that it was from this extraordinary sun that the place derived its doleful light.
"Whoe'er thou art, that standest upside down, O doleful soul, implanted like a stake," To say began I, "if thou canst, speak out."
After his speech had returned to him, he was passing heavy, and lamented their doleful case, and thus did all his people with him.
Why should I take the occasion of such distinguished honours to say that I begin to see deeper into Gustave Flaubert's doleful refrain about the hatred of literature?
After a while, casting his eyes upon me, "Dear nephew," cried he, embracing me, "if I have lost that unworthy son, I shall happily find in you what will better supply his place." The reflections he made on the doleful end of the prince and princess his daughter made us both weep afresh.