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Definition of dolorous in English: dolorousadjective ˈdɒl(ə)rəsˈdoʊlərəs literary Feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress. 〈诗/文〉忧伤的，悲痛的 a dolorous and repetitive tale of atrocity Example sentencesExamples - Far from being dour and dolorous, one of the clearest fruits of grace is a childlike joy.
- They had heard so very little of this; yet it was enough to build up wretched dolorous dreams upon, there in the shade of the night.
- A gently dolorous Bulgarian folk-tune unfolds as a duet.
- Through an interpreter this week, a dolorous Dolores explained that it hadn't taken her long to realize she'd been duped.
- We have tamed another bit of garden: a dolorous little drying green hedged on two sides with straggling cotoneasters which formed the view from the dining room.
Synonyms mournful, woeful, doleful, sorrowful, sad, unhappy, depressed, dismal, gloomy, morose, melancholy, miserable, forlorn, wretched, woebegone, despondent, dejected, disconsolate, downcast, crestfallen, downhearted, heartbroken, heavy-hearted, despairing, desolate, grief-stricken
Derivativesadverb literary Now you dolorously think that you really should have listened to your French teacher because you really want to understand what the site says. Example sentencesExamples - A burglar alarm on the house opposite is dolorously winking a tiny white light.
- Every time I came, it seemed, I met a lugubrious local figure who shook his head and dolorously announced that the weather had been beautiful until that very morning.
- ‘Don't worry about it,’ he dolorously replies.
- ‘I have been trying to do something about getting a job and am tired and discouraged,’ he confessed dolorously to his diary.
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French doleros, from late Latin dolorosus, from Latin dolor 'pain, grief'. Definition of dolorous in US English: dolorousadjectiveˈdoʊlərəsˈdōlərəs literary Feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress. 〈诗/文〉忧伤的，悲痛的 a dolorous and repetitive tale of atrocity Example sentencesExamples - We have tamed another bit of garden: a dolorous little drying green hedged on two sides with straggling cotoneasters which formed the view from the dining room.
- They had heard so very little of this; yet it was enough to build up wretched dolorous dreams upon, there in the shade of the night.
- Far from being dour and dolorous, one of the clearest fruits of grace is a childlike joy.
- Through an interpreter this week, a dolorous Dolores explained that it hadn't taken her long to realize she'd been duped.
- A gently dolorous Bulgarian folk-tune unfolds as a duet.
Synonyms mournful, woeful, doleful, sorrowful, sad, unhappy, depressed, dismal, gloomy, morose, melancholy, miserable, forlorn, wretched, woebegone, despondent, dejected, disconsolate, downcast, crestfallen, downhearted, heartbroken, heavy-hearted, despairing, desolate, grief-stricken
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French doleros, from late Latin dolorosus, from Latin dolor ‘pain, grief’. |