Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Sorrow; grief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pain; pang; suffering; distress.
- n. Grief; sorrow; lamentation.
- n. A lesser feast established by Pope Pius VII. in 1814 for the third Sunday of September.
Wiktionary
- n. literary sorrow, grief, misery or anguish
- n. a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Poetic Pain; grief; distress; anguish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (poetry) painful grief
Etymologies
- Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor ("pain, grief"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor, pain, from dolēre, to suffer, feel pain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The unusual amount of humidity during the fall of 1783 caused a rise in dolor de costado, insultos, pulmonías; a sudden drop in temperature in February caused these ailments to increase even more, along with "fluxes of the eyes" and fever in children. 35 The development of instruments for measuring such things as rainfall, temperature, and wind velocity stimulated further efforts to quantify climatic conditions.”
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
“Then I then looked at my girlfriend and said, "Donde Pistola? animal in dolor!”
“Ahora me pregunto si un par de Decretos Legislativos valen todo el odio y dolor que generarán estas muertes.”
Global Voices in English » Peru: Responsibility for the Casualties in Amazon Conflict
“Los daños desaparecen padre, pero el dolor es el mismo”
NEED HELP ASAP how do u say ' strengh is my mother' in spanish
“Yo sabía que estaba terriblemente lastimada nada más por sus mugidos de dolor.”
Chon y su vaca favorita Bessie/ a joke that requires translating
“Tener un pequeño apartamento puede ser un dolor de cabeza a la hora de diseñar el interior que deseamos.”
““I could remind you of the old adage: Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.””
“I wear colorful costumes to máscara de mi dolor, my skeleton is held together by metal, and machines, stitches, surgeons.”
“Showing us characters who cry is not the same thing as making a reader weep; the unrelieved dolor can provoke adefensive, metaphorical shrug.”
“Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dolor’.
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Words from Blood Meridian
visage, affray, scullery, miasma, mirth, purlieu, tacit, benighted, wickiup, corral, amble, accoutre and 210 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Nouns
weequash, aquabib, selcouth, tyrotoxism, sylph, penchant, adjuration, incantation, hummel, pyromancer, rhabdomancer, hydromancer and 14 more...
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Sorrow is better than laughter; for b...
lachrymose, sorrow, melancholic, wail, mournful, sob, misery, wretchedness, anguish, agony, heartbreak, lament and 38 more...
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The Decemberists for polite everyday ...
opal, dolor, lithe, infanta, vagabond, courtesan, vestry, skein, dram, magenta, camisole, charlemagne and 8 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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No Hablo Español
Despite seven years of classes and being half-Puerto Rican.
uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce and 198 more...
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wickedwitch's list
lll
alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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Test-words
rarefy, occlude, bolt, lambaste, career, careen, largesse, enormity, neologism, quizzical, sibyl, euphony and 105 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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The Unique
egoist, individualist, loner, hateful, asocial, inactive, anarchist, misanthrope, fascist, disturbed, bored, isolationist and 111 more...
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The Decemberists
The Decemberists tend to use a lot of interesting words in their songs.
parapet, wastrel, mescaline, indolent, balustrade, vagabond, sprightly, grapple, gunwale, odalisque, timberline, moribund and 116 more...
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wolfson's Words
cicisbeo, animadversion, drupe, callipygian, rhadamanthine, poetaster, philosophaster, grammaticaster, lacuna, infralapsarian, incunabula, logorrhea and 142 more...
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seanahan's Words
lacustrine, indubitably, masala, balustrade, arcane, gambit, bagatelle, demonstrative, epicaricacy, cacophony, archetype, picaresque and 418 more...
Tweets
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dontcry This word often appears in my "greeked" type for layouts. Mar 1, 2011
yarb Another day, another dolor. Mar 1, 2011
bilby Try starting each morning with a positive thought and a Prolagus breakfast. Mar 1, 2011
duckbill "I spend my doleful days in dumps and dolors." Mar 1, 2011