Today's Word "dolorous"
Marked by grief or sorrow
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dolorous \DOH-luh-ruhs\ (adjective) - Marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.
"Through the silence of the great forest there came a swishing, whistling sound, mingled with the most dolorous groans, and the voice of a man raised in a high quavering kind of song." -- Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The White Company'
Dolorous derives from Latin dolor, "pain, grief, sorrow," from dolere, "to suffer pain, to grieve."
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