doleful

adj.

[1]

mournful , sad , sorrowful , melancholy , gloomy , mournful , cheerless , joyless , sombre , depressed , disconsolate , blue , down , distressed , dejected , downhearted , forlorn , unhappy , lugubrious , dolorous , wretched , miserable , woebegone , dreary , woeful , (Colloq) down in the mouth , down in the dumps , distressing , funereal , depressing , grievous , harrowing