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full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
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Dolorous
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- It is a heavy and labored drama in the old dolorous manner.
- Yet despite this dolorous litany, farmers have been doing fairly well in recent years.
- What happened was not all dolorous lamentation, though there is some of that.
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Word Origin & History
dolorous
c.1400, "causing pain," from O.Fr. doloros, from L.L. dolorosus, from L. dolor "pain, grief." Sense of "causing grief" is from mid-15c.; that of "full of sorrow" is from 1510s.
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