Thesaurus / dolent
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synonyms for dolent
- distressing
- melancholy
- sad
- lugubrious
- heartrending
- affecting
- mournful
- plaintive
- sorry
- painful
- afflicted
- dejected
- depressed
- disconsolate
- doleful
- grievous
- heartbroken
- lamentable
- miserable
- piteous
- rueful
- tearful
- unhappy
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- heavy-hearted
- ruthful
- tear-jerking
- full of sorrow
- hurting
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- sick at heart
- singing the blues
- afflicted
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- dismal
- dispirited
- distressing
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dreary
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- pitiful
- plaintive
- rueful
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- cast down
- dirgeful
- grieving
- afflicted
- calamitous
- deplorable
- dire
- distressing
- doleful
- grievous
- harrowing
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- painful
- plaintive
- regrettable
- rueful
- sad
- sorrowful
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- afflictive
- ruthful
- dolesome
- dolorific
- heart-rending
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How to use dolent in a sentence
On a day in the dark, uncharted past of Brittany a fierce battle was fought in the Champ Dolent.
LEGENDS & ROMANCES OF BRITTANYLEWIS SPENCESi d'aventure aucû chevalier non hardy ou paresseux te possède après ma mort j'en seray grandement dolent.
BARN AND THE PYRENEESLOUISA STUART COSTELLODole and dolent are doubtless the exact counterparts of dolore and dolente, so far as mere etymology can go.
THE UNSEEN WORLD AND OTHER ESSAYSJOHN FISKEPest on these dreary, dolent airs!Confound these funeral pomps and poses!
THE IDLER MAGAZINE, VOLUME III., JULY 1893VARIOUSWhen the sailors heard this they were very dolent, but there was naught that they might do.
FRENCH MEDIAEVAL ROMANCES FROM THE LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCEMARIE DE FRANCEThe menhir du Champ Dolent sinks an inch every hundred years.
ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS AND THEIR BUILDERST. ERIC PEETShe regarded him with her smoky eyes, in which he now saw that dolent, almost dolorous expression which had captivated him.
L-BASJ. K. HUYSMANSOur past need not be in a graveyard, and one agrees with Jean Dolent that man is surely matter, but that his soul is his own work.
EGOISTSJAMES HUNEKERVery dolent was he and sorely troubled that so young a knight should be esteemed above his fathers.
FRENCH MEDIAEVAL ROMANCES FROM THE LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCEMARIE DE FRANCETowards this forest Graelent rode, deep in heavy thought, and very dolent.
FRENCH MEDIAEVAL ROMANCES FROM THE LAYS OF MARIE DE FRANCEMARIE DE FRANCEWORDS RELATED TO DOLENT
- afflicted
- cast down
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- dirgeful
- dismal
- dispirited
- distressing
- dolent
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dreary
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- grieving
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- pitiful
- plaintive
- rueful
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- affecting
- afflicted
- dejected
- depressed
- disconsolate
- distressing
- doleful
- dolent
- full of sorrow
- grievous
- heartbroken
- heartrending
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- plaintive
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick at heart
- singing the blues
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- unhappy
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.