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Dolorous

🔄 Synonyms of "Dolorous"

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
sorrowful	exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
tearful	Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
weepingnoun	Action of the verb to weep.
lachrymose	Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
dolourous	Obsolete form of dolorous. [Solemnly or ponderously sad.]

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
dolourous	Obsolete form of dolorous. [Solemnly or ponderously sad.]
sorrowful	exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
lachrymose	Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
weepingnoun	Action of the verb to weep.
tearful	Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
solemn	(by extension) Deeply serious and sombre; grave.
lugubrious	Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
plaintive	Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
sadful	(rare, poetic) Full of sadness; sorrowful.
elegiacnoun	A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
dolorosenoun	Grievous and sorrowful.
doleful	Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
sombersome	Characterised or marked by somberness.
somberish	Somewhat somber.
wailful	(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
sepulchral	Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
sombre	Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
sullen	Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
mournsome	Characterised by mourning; mournful
pensive	Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.