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Exact Match:

doleful: filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

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Related Words:

heartrending collapse

broken-hearted collapse

grief stricken collapse

ruthful collapse

grieved collapse

careworn collapse: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens

heartbroken collapse

lugubrious collapse: excessively mournful

tearful collapse: filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"

affecting collapse: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

sombre collapse

plaintive collapse

piteous collapse

glum collapse: reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"

anguished collapse: experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation"

disconsolate collapse

dolorous collapse: showing sorrow

funereal collapse: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"

plangent collapse: loud and resounding; "plangent bells"; "the plangent minority"

pathetic collapse: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett; inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

rueful collapse

sorrowful collapse: experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

afflicted collapse: mentally or physically unfit; grievously affected especially by disease

joyless collapse: not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"

mournful collapse: expressing sorrow

pitiful collapse

lamentable collapse

touching collapse

woeful collapse

grievous collapse: causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"

gloomy collapse: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"

miserable collapse: characterized by physical misery; "a wet miserable weekend"; "spent a wretched night on the floor"; very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"

droop collapse: hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled"

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