Dolorous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Solemnly or ponderously sad.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal
  • adj. Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
    • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing sorrow
    • Equivalent
    sorrowful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sad    sorrowful    doleful    dismal    painful   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    doleful    mournful    woful    lugubrious    anguished   
     
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