dolorousness — noun see dolorous … New Collegiate Dictionary
dolorousness — See dolorously. * * * … Universalium
dolorousness — n. painfulness; grievousness, mournfulness … English contemporary dictionary
dolorousness — do·lo·rous·ness … English syllables
dolorousness — noun see dolorous … Useful english dictionary
dolorous — adjective Date: 15th century causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief • dolorously adverb • dolorousness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
dolorous — dolorously, adv. dolorousness, n. /dol euhr euhs, doh leuhr /, adj. full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news. [1375 1425; ME dolorous, dolerous < AF, OF; see DOLOR, OUS] * * * … Universalium
mournfulness — Synonyms and related words: aggrievedness, bitterness, bleakness, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dolorousness, dreariness, funerealness, grief, grievousness, joylessness,… … Moby Thesaurus
dolorous — (adj.) c.1400, causing pain, from O.Fr. doloros (12c., Mod.Fr. douloureux) painful, sorrowful, wretched, from L.L. dolorosus painful, sorrowful, from L. dolor pain, grief. Sense of causing grief is from mid 15c.; that of full of sorrow is from… … Etymology dictionary
moroseness — n sullenness, saturnineness, saturnity, morosity, somberness, soberness, austerity, severity, acerbity, taciturnity, silence; glumness, gloominess, grumness, grimness, bleakness, darkness, black looks; lugubriousness, atrabiliousness, morbidity,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
