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    Doleful means very sad — the heavy kind you can see on a face or hear in a voice, not a small “I’m a bit sad.” A doleful look, a doleful cry, a doleful song: the word likes to sit in front of a thing you can notice. It sounds a little old and ; in everyday talk people more often say sad, miserable, or gloomy. It does not mean “on the dole” (British informal for living on unemployment money). That dole is a different word that only looks the same.

    悲哀的、愁苦的

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組成dole + -ful. From Middle English. Here dole is an old word for sorrow, not money.

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dolefuladj/ˈdoʊlfəl/

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    Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

    • The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.
    • A doleful expression that tugged at my heartstrings.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。