DOLOR

dolor, dolour

(noun) (poetry) painful grief

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

dolor (countable and uncountable, plural dolors)

(literary) Sorrow, grief, misery or anguish.

A unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

Synonyms

• (unit of pain): dol

Antonyms

• (unit of pain): hedon

Anagrams

• drool, loord

Source: Wiktionary


Do"lor, n. Etym: [OE. dolor, dolur, dolour, F. douleur, L. dolor, fr. dolere. See 1st Dole.]

Definition: Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [Written also dolour.] [Poetic] Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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