See dolesome on Wiktionary
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"word": "doleful"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "dolesome"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "drear"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "drearisome"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "dreary"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "dreich"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "forlorn"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "gayless"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "gray"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "gloomsome"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "gloomy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "grim"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "joyless"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "lack-laughter"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "lugubrious"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "melancholy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "mirthless"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "miserable"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "no joke"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "saturnine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "solemn"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "somber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "sombre"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "spiritless"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "sullen"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "sunless"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "uncheerful"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "uncheery"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "unhappy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "unmerry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "wintry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:cheerless",
"word": "woeful"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdoʊlsəm/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈdəʊlsəm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊlsəm"
}
],
"word": "dolesome"
}
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