Dolorous \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.
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You take me in too dolorous a sense;
I spake to you for your comfort. --Shak.
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2. Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
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Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the
paw of the bear or teeth of the lion. --Dr. H. More.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dolorous
adj : showing sorrow [syn: dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
WordNet (r) 2.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, grief-stricken, griefful, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping
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