doleful

Day 58Level 2

DOHL-fuhl

mournful

sad, mournful, sorrowful

Part of Speech: adjective

Synonyms:

melancholy, dejected, woeful

Antonyms:

cheerful, elated, gleeful

Example Sentence:

This city, once again, provides a doleful counterexample where growth was ungoverned and not underpinned by effective mass transit or infrastructure.