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单词 dolorous
释义 do·lo·rous
\ˈdōlərəs sometimes ˈdälər- or dəˈlōr- or dəˈlȯr-\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French dolereus, from Late Latin dolorosus, from Latin dolor pain + -osus -ous
1. : occasioning pain
 < washed down with wine of dolorous acerbity — Nathaniel Hawthorne >
2.
 a. : causing mental suffering or distress
  < women and children howling and weeping — a most dolorous sight — Dorothy Thompson >
 b. : highly regrettable : deplorable, lamentable
  < the causes which have brought the world to its present dolorous pass — P.E.More >
3. : marked by deep misery : woeful
 < during the dolorous years of the depression — Amy Loveman >
4. : expressive of sorrow or affliction : doleful, lugubrious
 < that dolorous aspect of human nature which in comedy is best portrayed by Molière — T.S.Eliot >
 < dolorous ballads of death and violence >
do·lo·rous·ly adverb
do·lo·rous·ness noun -es
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