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Definition: Dolefully |
DolefullyAdverb1. With sadness; in a sorrowful manner; "his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dolefully" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: DolefullySynonym: sorrowfully (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dolefully |
| English words defined with "dolefully": sorrowfully ♦ Wofully. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dolefully": satire. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Life, said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it." |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent. Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. Barney Stims |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dolefully" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dolefully" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dolefully"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 施舍地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | traurige (funereally, lugubriously, sorrowfully, woefully), trübsinnig (blue, cheerless, dismal, doleful, gloomy, glum, hangdog, melancholy, morbid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szomorúan (dismally, drearily, in a minor key, mournfully, plaintively, sadly), gyászosan (funereally, mournfully, tragically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olefullyday trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful). (various references) อย่างเสียใจมาก. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | triste. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Dolefully" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dolefule, dolefull. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-l-l-l-o-u-y" | |
-2 letters: doleful. | |
-3 letters: duello, fouled, foully, fulled, lolled, loudly, lulled. | |
-4 letters: delly, dolly, dully, felly, flued, folly, fully, lolly, odyle, yodel, yodle. | |
-5 letters: defy, delf, dell, dole, doll, duel, dull, duly, fell, feod, feud, fled, fley, floe, flue, fold, foul, fuel, full, leud, lode, loll, loud, lude, lull, odyl, oldy, yeld, yell, yule. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 6C 65 66 75 6C 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .-.. . ..-. ..- .-.. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01101100 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o l e f u l l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 006C 0065 0066 0075 006C 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388178717287787891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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