DOLOROUS - 9 definitions found
dolorous adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping] dolorous c.1400, "causing pain," from O.Fr. doloros, from L.L. dolorosus, from L. dolor "pain, grief." Sense of "causing grief" is from c.1450; that of "full of sorrow" is from 1513. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) dolorous adjective Date: 15th century causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief • dolorously adverb • dolorousness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary dolorous ˈdɔlərəs adj. literary or joc. 1 distressing, painful; doleful, dismal. 2 distressed, sad. øødolorously adv. [ME f. OF doleros f. LL dolorosus (as DOLOUR)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms dolorous a. 1. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolesome. 2. Sorrowful, sad, piteous, rueful, woful, lugubrious, mournful, doleful, dolesome. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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