Doleful vs Spiritless - What's the difference?
doleful | spiritless | Related terms |
Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
:The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.
Doleful is a related term of spiritless.
As adjectives the difference between doleful and spiritless
is that doleful is filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness while spiritless is lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion enervated.doleful
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Adjective
(er)- The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.