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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. showing sorrow;
[syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dolorous \Dol"or*ous\, a. [L. dolorosus, from dolor: cf. F. douloureux. See Dolor.] 1. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. [1913 Webster] You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Occasioning pain or grief; painful. [1913 Webster] Their dispatch is quick, and less dolorous than the paw of the bear or teeth of the lion. --Dr. H. More. -- Dol"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Dol"or*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dolorous adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "dolorous": affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak, calamitous, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, dire, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dreary, dumb with grief, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, heartbreaking, in grief, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, regrettable, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, tearful, touching, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched