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doleful 【doleful】adj.悲哀的His doleful expression showed that he had failed in the examination.由他悲哀的表情可以知道他考试考坏了。

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['doʊlfl] 
dolefulfilled with or evoking sadness
To be doleful is to be down in the dumps, to have a hole in your soul, to be full of woe.
Doleful has nothing to do with a doe, a deer or a female deer. Unless one of those animals has a really sad look in its eyes. Expressions can be doleful, ditto a song or a set of circumstances. You can use the adjective doleful to describe something that is bringing you down, that makes you want to give into gravity or crawl into bed. Doleful is pretty much the opposite of how a ray of golden sun can make you feel.
All forms of 'doleful' will appear on average once every 1590 pages.dolefuldolefullydolefulness

Front	doleful
Pron	['doʊlfl]
Back	【doleful】 adj.悲哀的 His doleful expression showed that he had failed in the examination. 由他悲哀的表情可以知道他考试考坏了。
Vocab	dolefulfilled with or evoking sadness To be doleful is to be down in the dumps, to have a hole in your soul, to be full of woe. Doleful has nothing to do with a doe, a deer or a female deer. Unless one of those animals has a really sad look in its eyes. Expressions can be doleful, ditto a song or a set of circumstances. You can use the adjective doleful to describe something that is bringing you down, that makes you want to give into gravity or crawl into bed. Doleful is pretty much the opposite of how a ray of golden sun can make you feel. All forms of 'doleful' will appear on average once every 1590 pages. doleful dolefully dolefulness

Doleful Doʊlfl Adj.悲哀的 Expression Showed Failed Examination 由他悲哀的表情可以知道他考试考坏了