DOLOROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dolorous mean? 

• DOLOROUS (adjective)
  The adjective DOLOROUS has 1 sense:

1. showing sorrow

  Familiarity information: DOLOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOLOROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing sorrow

Synonyms:

dolorous; dolourous; lachrymose; tearful; weeping

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

Derivation:

dolor ((poetry) painful grief)

 Context examples 

Through the silence of the great forest there came a swishing, whistling sound, mingled with the most dolorous groans, and the voice of a man raised in a high quavering kind of song.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of these, the parlor, gay with an ingrain carpet and dolorous with a funeral card and a death-picture of one of her numerous departed babes, was kept strictly for company.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Once a begging friar came limping along in a brown habit, imploring in a most dolorous voice to give him a single groat to buy bread wherewith to save himself from impending death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, alternately beating and beaten, they made their dolorous way through the beautiful woods and under the amber arches of the fading beech-trees, where the calm strength and majesty of Nature might serve to rebuke the foolish energies and misspent strivings of mankind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)