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# dolefully

«dolefully» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a sad, mournful way, as if very unhappy: he sighed…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (dolefully)

### meaning for a pupil

Dolefully means in a sad, mournful way, as if very unhappy: he sighed dolefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dolefully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character speaks or moves dolefully to show grief or misery, often when things have gone wrong.

### examples

- "I lost my ball," he said dolefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dolefully/#x1)
- The dog looked dolefully at the empty bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dolefully/#x2)
- She sighed dolefully and sat down on the step. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dolefully/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dolefully» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dolefully/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.