Feeling or expressing sorrow; sad, sorrowful, melancholy. dolefulc1430– Of persons, their state, etc.: Full of pain, grief, or suffering; sorrowful, sad.
A doleful expression, manner, or voice is depressing and miserable. He gave me a long, doleful look. Synonyms: mournful, sad, gloomy, depressing More Synonyms of doleful. dolefully adverb [ADV with v]
If you get into fights all of the time, you might be accused of truculence and sent for anger management classes. Truculence is showing a fierce kind of aggression. If your basketball team wins a game by sheer truculence, it means that they win not by skill or talent, but by playing with ferocious aggression.
If someone is grouchy, they are very bad-tempered and complain a lot. [informal, disapproval] Your grandmother has nothing to stop her from being bored, grouchy, and lonely. Synonyms: bad-tempered, cross, irritable, grumpy More Synonyms of grouchy.
If you act catty, you're malicious or snotty toward other people. The adjective is unfortunately used more often to describe females than males, but anyone who treats people nastily can be called catty.
Obstreperous means boisterous, noisy, aggressive, defiant. You've probably seen an obstreperous child in the grocery store, pulling away from her mother, screaming at the top of her lungs.
Someone who is veracious speaks the truth — like your brutally honest friend who always lets you know what she thinks about your outfits, your hairstyle, your lasagna recipe, and your taste in movies.
If someone likes to talk but they're really boring, they've got prolixity. It's not something to be proud of. Prolixity means about the same thing as long-windedness. If someone is yammering on and on and on — that's an example of prolixity.
If you describe someone as laconic, you mean that they use very few words to say something, so that they seem casual or unfriendly. Usually so laconic in the office, Dr. Lahey seemed less guarded, more relaxed. Synonyms: terse, short, brief, clipped More Synonyms of laconic.
the quality of being clear and transparent. noun. free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression. synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness.
A loquacious person talks a lot, often about stuff that only they think is interesting. You can also call them chatty or gabby, but either way, they're loquacious.
dol'-fool ('oach, "howling"): The "doleful creatures" referred to in Isa 13:21 are probably "jackals," although some have suggested "leopard," or "hyena." The older English Versions of the Bible gives "great owls." The word rendered "doleful lamentation" in Mic 2:4 (niheyah) is simply a form of the word ordinarily ...
Querulous means “having a tendency to complain” or, more directly put, “whiny.” Sure, no one can be happy all the time, but that's no excuse for being querulous.
Catty behavior in a relationship refers to passive-aggressive, manipulative, or spiteful actions that undermine trust and create emotional tension. This behavior often involves subtle remarks, jealousy, gossip, or backhanded compliments that can cause hurt without being overly confrontational.
Cattywampus. Originating in the Colonial United states and still used in the deep South, cattywampus means something that is in disarray, that is askew, or something that isn't directly across from something.
Meaning: Pellucidity refers to the quality of being clear and easy to understand. It can describe how light passes through something without being blocked or changed. In a broader sense, it can also mean that something is expressed in a way that is straightforward and comprehensible.
Pedantic means "like a pedant," someone who's too concerned with literal accuracy or formality. It's a negative term that implies someone is showing off book learning or trivia, especially in a tiresome way.
This phrase stems from the old-fashioned insult loggerhead, "stupid person or blockhead." It was also the name of a heavy iron tool, and the "battling" sense may stem from the idea of swinging big, blunt weapons at each other. Definitions of at loggerheads. adjective. in a dispute or confrontation.
