Dolorous

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  • adjective. Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Exciting or expressing sorrow, grief, or distress; dismal; mournful: as, a dolorous object; a dolorous region; dolorous sighs.
  • Painful; giving pain.
  • Synonyms See list under doleful.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal
  • adjective. Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Solemnly or ponderously sad.
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  • adjective. showing sorrow
    • Word Usage
    ""Don't you? it can't be helped then!" replied he in dolorous resignation: then, with a peculiar half smile, he added, "But never mind; I imagine the squire has more to apologize for than I," and left the cottage."
    Equivalent
    sorrowful  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anguished  dejected  dismal  doleful  dulcet  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affecting  afflicted  afflictive  aggrieved  anguished  
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