Doleful
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

SAD
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

6 letters

DISMAL
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

DREARY
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "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"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

8 letters

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

9 letters

MISERABLE
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

CHEERLESS
Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

10 letters

LUGUBRIOUS
Excessively mournful

MELANCHOLY
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

DESPONDENT
Without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"