تعریف فرهنگ لغت "حسرتآور" بیانگر غم و اندوه، سوگوار یا مالیخولیا است. باعث غم یا اندوه می شود. همچنین می تواند به شخصی اشاره کند که غمگین یا غمگین به نظر می رسد.
1. All seemed somewhat put out by this dull, confused, martial harmony, especially Don Quixote, who could not keep his seat from pure disquietude as to Sancho, it is needless to say that fear drove him to his usual refuge, the side or the skirts of the duchess and indeed and in truth the sound they heard was a most doleful and melancholy one.
2. But one day at table with the duke and duchess, just as he was about to carry his resolution into effect and ask for their permission, lo and behold suddenly there came in through the door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards proved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom approaching Don Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing her lips to them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that she put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity and though the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face.
3. Such an end of the doleful disappointment of five weeks back!
4. The clock of the Invalides struck a quarter to twelve the west wind bore on its moistened gusts the doleful vibration of the three strokes.
5. The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition, partly out of sympathy for the fate of its ill-starred namesake, and partly from the tales of strange sights, and doleful lamentations, told concerning it.
6. Yet I love to hear their wailing, their doleful responses, trilled along the wood-side reminding me sometimes of music and singing birds as if it were the dark and tearful side of music, the regrets and sighs that would fain be sung.