Dolorous
['dɒl(ə)rəs] or ['dolərəs]
Definition
(a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
(a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
Editor: Philip
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Dismal, gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolesome.[2]. Sorrowful, sad, doleful, piteous, rueful, woful, lugubrious.
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Examples
- These dank walls had known the man whose dolorous story is a sealed book forever! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He drew forth a hymn book, gave out a verse, set a tune, and they all struck up the most dolorous of canticles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In poverty, hunger and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the ‘Song of the Shirt. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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