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
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