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Dolefulness

Definition: Dolefulness

Dolefulness

Noun

1. Sadness caused by grief or affliction.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dolefulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1682. (references)


Modern Translation: Dolefulness

Language Translations for "dolefulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Kummer (affliction, distress, grief, heartache, misery, pain, sorrow, trouble, woe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olefulnessday

   

Thai

  

ความเศร้าใจ (sorrow). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

keder (damp, dole, dolor, dolour, dreariness, gloominess, grief, heartbreak, low spirits, plaintiveness, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), kasvet (cheerlessness, depression, doldrums, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness, heebie-jeebies, murk, somberness, sombreness, sullenness), hüzün (blues, doldrums, dole, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, ruefulness, sadness, shadow, somberness, sombreness, spleen). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vẻ sầu thảm vẻ ai oán, sá»± buá»"n khổ vẻ buá»"n thảm, sá»± Ä‘au buá»"n (mourning, woe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Dolefulness

Derivations

Words beginning with "dolefulness": dolefulnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dolefulness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-l-l-n-o-s-s-u"

-3 letters: delouses, dullness, ensouled, fellness, foulness, fullness, lessoned, loudness, needfuls, selenous, senseful, sulfones.

-4 letters: defuses, delouse, doleful, duellos, dueness, dulness, endless, enfolds, ensouls, felloes, flensed, flenses, flossed, fondles, fondues, fuelled, fulness, loudens, needful, nodules, oldness, oneself, snelled, sulfone, unfolds, unsells.

-5 letters: defuse, donees, dossel, douses, duello, dulses, eludes, endues, enfold, ensoul, ensued, ensues, felled.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-l-l-n-o-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: dolefulnesses.

 

+4 letters: splendiferously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dolefulness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 6F 6C 65 66 75 6C 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    .-..    .    ..-.    ..-    .-..    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01101100 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#102 &#117 &#108 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 006C 0065 0066 0075 006C 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3881787172877880718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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