dolefulness

1. 1.

   sadness caused by grief or affliction

   Broadersadness

Other forms of dolefulness

plural

dolefulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dolefulness

What does dolefulness mean?

dolefulness means "sadness caused by grief or affliction".

How many syllables are in dolefulness?

dolefulness has 4 syllables and divides as do-le-ful-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.