Doleful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 99 anagrams from letters in doleful (defllou).
First recorded in 1225-75, doleful is from the Middle English word dol-ful. See dole2, -ful
But what doleful ditty is this for the lips of a stout yeoman?
Yonder is his flock; and there sits he on a rock blowing his doleful reed.
That doleful wailing song of hers was the first chant of madness.
Their garb lent them either the gravitas the Republican bench has previously lacked, or the doleful aspect of ushers at a funeral.
His prophetic and doleful despatches had been for years the joke of Foreign Offices.
Fox News called him a “doleful hound,” while the Washington Post preferred the less stylized, “slightly befuddled-looking.”
"Books" to him meant the doleful books that bookkeepers keep.
Wild animals and doleful creatures had everywhere increased.
Barbara did not speak at once and Jed began to whistle a doleful melody.
And the sight of it suggested ascertaining the identity of the doleful minstrel.