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doleful + noun
doleful 放在名词前作定语，修饰能引起悲伤感受的事物（如歌曲、表情、声音）。
He sang a doleful song about lost love.
他唱了一首关于逝去爱情的悲伤歌曲。
悲伤的；忧郁的；阴沉的
dolefuller — comparative of doleful
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
悲伤的；忧郁的；阴沉的
filled with or evoking sadness
He sang a doleful song about lost love.
他唱了一首关于逝去爱情的悲伤歌曲。
悲伤的；忧郁的；令人悲哀的
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
充满或引发悲伤的
filled with or evoking sadness
The dog gave a doleful whine when its owner left the house.
狗在主人离开房子时发出悲哀的呜咽声。
AI contextual example
She looked at the old photograph with a doleful expression.
她带着忧郁的表情看着那张旧照片。
AI contextual example
His doleful song made everyone in the room feel sad.
他那忧伤的歌声让房间里每个人都感到难过。
AI contextual example
the child's doleful expression
孩子悲伤的表情
WordNet
doleful 放在名词前作定语，修饰能引起悲伤感受的事物（如歌曲、表情、声音）。
He sang a doleful song about lost love.
他唱了一首关于逝去爱情的悲伤歌曲。
doleful 也可放在系动词后作表语，说明主语悲伤的状态或样子。
Why do you look so doleful today?
你今天为什么看起来这么悲伤？
Not this
She smiled doleful at the old photo.
Use this
She smiled dolefully at the old photo.
doleful 是形容词，只能修饰名词；smiled 是动词，需要用副词 dolefully 来说明‘微笑’的方式。汉语中‘忧郁的／忧郁地’区分不严格，但英语要用副词修饰动词。
Not this
The doleful of the song made me cry.
Use this
The doleful feeling of the song made me cry.
doleful 是形容词，不能像汉语‘悲伤’那样直接作名词。要表达‘歌曲的那种悲伤’，需在后面加上被修饰的名词（如 feeling），或改用名词 dolefulness。
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悲伤的表情
She wore a doleful expression when she heard the news.
她听到这个消息时露出悲伤的表情。
忧郁的眼神
The dog looked up at me with doleful eyes.
那只狗用忧郁的眼神抬头看着我。
哀伤的歌曲
He sang a doleful song about lost love.
他唱了一首关于失去爱情的哀伤歌曲。
悲伤的语气
Her voice had a doleful tone as she spoke of the past.
她谈起往事时，声音带着悲伤的语气。
哀嚎声
A doleful cry came from the empty house at night.
夜里，空屋里传来一声哀嚎。
令人悲伤的景象
The abandoned village was a doleful sight.
那个废弃的村庄是一幅令人悲伤的景象。
他们的房屋必充满悲鸣的活物
From the King James Bible (Isaiah 13:21), this phrase describes a destroyed Babylon being inhabited by eerie, wailing animals; because of its imagery, the verse has become a well-known literary image of desolation.
此语出自英王钦定版圣经（以赛亚书13:21），描写被毁灭的巴比伦住满怪异哀鸣的动物；因其意象鲜明，这节经文成为描绘荒凉的著名文学画面。
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联想 doleful 像 'hole full'：心里像填满悲伤的洞，所以悲哀、忧郁、阴沉。
语域：formal 常见场景：文学描写、正式书面语、诗歌、演讲 doleful 通常用于正式或文学性语境，表示悲哀、忧郁或阴沉；在口语中较少见，有时带有一点夸张或幽默的意味。
Genuine rhyme: soulful /ˈsoʊlfəl/ rhymes with doleful /ˈdoʊlfəl/. Words like helpful, careful, and hopeful share the -ful spelling but have different stressed vowels, so they do not rhyme. Beware lookalikes doll /dɑːl/ and dull /dʌl/, whose vowel sounds differ from the /oʊl/ in doleful.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.