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- Unlikely Duchess;
• (lovelorn)- being without love; forsaken by one's lover, ( - ); Then
he behaved just like a lovelorn beau, when his best girl comes near. — Welsh
Fairy Tales;
dolorous = lachrymose = lugubrious ~ plaintive = mournful = doleful^ doldrums
• (dolorous)- full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous;
mournful, ( ; ); The refrain of “Here lie the Remains” haunted
me like a dolorous song. — The Three Brontes;
• (lachrymose)- suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful, ( ;
; ); Many men in their cups become lachrymose, others
silly, and some combative. — Red Rooney The Last of the Crew;
• (lugubrious)- mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected,
exaggerated, or unrelieved manner, ( ; ); Brooker's face
was lugubrious, like a Methodist preacher who revelled in hell-fire
predictions. — Sharpe's Enemy;
• (plaintive)- expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful, ( ;
; ); All their songs are plaintive, and contain modulations of
the voice so mysteriously charming in effect, and so good in tone, that they
really affect one profoundly. — In the Forbidden Land;
• (mournful)- feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad, ( ;
); One by one, the quiet essays and mournful-seeming stories came
forth, like drops from a slow-distilling spring. — A Study Of Hawthorne;
• (doleful)- sorrowful; mournful; melancholy, ( ; ); The place
is doleful, and a funeral scene on the only sunless day I experienced in Ladak
was indescribably dismal. — Among the Tibetans;
• (doldrums)- a dull, listless, depressed mood; low spirits, ( ;
; ); If a banquet would lift him from
the doldrums, they would throw the most lavish banquet that had ever been
seen in Silvanesti. — Dragons Of A Lost Star;
• a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the
northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
( );
melancholy : jeremiad : ululate = wail
• (melancholy)- a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged;
depression, ( ; ; ); The reason for
her melancholy was evident to any one who knew her father's history. —
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1;