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dolourous

dolourous is the obsolete form of dolorous.

Meaning of dolorous

Adjective

dolorous (comparative more dolorous, superlative most dolorous)

  1. Solemnly or ponderously sad.
    • Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
      Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
      Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of dolourous

comparativemore dolourous
superlativemost dolourous

Words formed from dolourous

Questions about dolourous

What is dolourous the obsolete form of?
Dolourous is the obsolete form of dolorous.

Words near dolourous in the dictionary

  1. dolosity
  2. dolosse
  3. dolostone
  4. dolostones
  5. dolour
  6. dolourous
  7. dolourously
  8. dolourousness
  9. dolours
  10. Dolowich
  11. Dolph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dolourous (page history and authors); dolorous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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