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Mournfully vs Dolefully - What's the difference?

mournfully | dolefully | Synonyms |

Mournfully is a synonym of dolefully.


As adverbs the difference between mournfully and dolefully

is that mournfully is in a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something while dolefully is in a doleful manner.

mournfully

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
  • * 1927 , , page 140
    • The steamer itself had vanished, but the great scroll of smoke still hung in the air and drooped like a flag mournfully in valediction.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
  • *:"Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully ; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."

    • Synonyms

    * (l), (l)

    Hypernyms

    * (l)

    dolefully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a doleful manner

    • Synonyms

    * deplorably * dolorously * grievously * lamentably * lugubriously * mournfully * plaintively * regrettably * ruefully * sadly * sorrowfully * woefully