dolorous
Use Dolorous in a sentence
ər adjective
full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
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dolorous (ˈdɒlərəs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| causing or involving pain or sorrow | |
| 'dolorously | |
| —adv | |
| 'dolorousness | |
| —n | |
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Dolorous
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| 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. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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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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Example sentences
It is a heavy and labored drama in the old dolorous manner.
What happened was not all dolorous lamentation, though there is some of that.
The movie turns dolorous and grim-and also spectacular in a conventional way, with cars and buses flung across open spaces.
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