About The Word Dolorous
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Dolorous
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What's The Definition Of Dolorous?
[adj] showing sorrow
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dolorous: dolourous | lachrymose | sorrowful | tearful | weeping Related Terms | Find terms related to Dolorous: affecting | afflicted | afflictive | aggrieved | anguished | bitter | bleak | calamitous | careworn | cheerless | comfortless | deplorable | depressing | depressive | dire | discomforting | dismal | dismaying | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dreary | dumb with grief | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | grievous | heartbreaking | in grief | joyless | lamentable | lugubrious | miserable | mournful | moving | painful | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | plaintive | plangent | plunged in grief | poignant | regrettable | rueful | ruthful | sad | saddening | sharp | sore | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | tearful | touching | uncomfortable | woebegone | woeful | wretched See Also | Dolorous In Webster's Dictionary \Dol"or*ous\, a. [L. dolorosus, from dolor: cf. F.
douloureux. See {Dolor}.]
1. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a
dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you
for your comfort. --Shak.
2. Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the
paw of the bear or teeth of the lion. --Dr. H. More.
-- {Dol"or*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Dol"or*ous*ness}, n.
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