- 3. Gift, gratuity, donation, pittance, alms.
- 4. Grief, sorrow, distress, woe, affliction.
Doleful, a.
- 1. Sorrowful, rueful, woful, piteous, melancholy, jugubrious, sad.
- 2. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolorous, dolesome.
Dole out. Distribute, divide, apportion, allot, assign, share, deal, deal out.
Dolesome, a. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolorous. See doleful.
Do-little, n. [U. S.] Idler, sluggard, drone, laggard, lounger, trifler, dawdler, doodle, donought (donnat, donnot, Scotch), do-nothing, good-for-nothing, inefficient person.
Doll, n. Puppet (for a child), baby.
Dolorous, a.
- 1. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolesome.
- 2. Sorrowful, sad, piteous, rueful, woful, lugubrious, mournful, doleful, dolesome.
Dolt, n. Simpleton, fool. See dunce.
Doltish, a. Stupid, stolid, dull, foolish, blockish, simple, witless, thick-skulled, beetle-headed, beef-brained, beef-witted, thick-headed, heavy-headed.
Domain, n.
- 1. Sway, authority, dominion.
- 2. Dominion, empire, territory, realm.
- 3. Estate, lands, landed estate.
- 4. Province, department, region, realm, branch.
Dome, n.
- 1. Cupola, tholus, spherical vaulted roof.
- 2. (Poetical.) Building, fabric, house.