dolorous
Full of sorrow
Dolorous means full of sorrow or causing grief—a literary word for deep sadness or lamentation.
A dolorous cry echoed through the empty hall.
The word appears in older poetry and formal prose but sounds archaic in everyday speech.
It shares its root with dolor, grief itself.
Showing or feeling grief
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
- woefulExtremely sad or pitiful
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
- plaintiveSounding sad, sorrowful
elegiac · pensive · forlorn · despondent · woebegone · dismal · morose · dejected
Deep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- bereavementState following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
anguish · woe · loss · funeral · tears · inconsolable · eulogy · memorial
Intense prolonged craving
- piningAching with prolonged desire
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- homesickLonging for one's dwelling
lovesick · languishing · bereft · forlorn · lonely · aching · unfulfilled · bittersweet
Causing great sorrow
- poignantEvoking keen emotion
- heartrendingCausing overwhelming grief
- patheticArousing scornful pity
- piteousArousing sorrowful compassion
moving · affecting · lamentable · deplorable · regrettable · woebegone · threnody · jeremiad
mournful
Showing or feeling grief
- lugubriousExaggeratedly mournful in manner
- woefulExtremely sad or pitiful
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
plaintive · elegiac · pensive · forlorn · despondent · woebegone · dismal · morose · dejected · crestfallen
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- bereavementState following loss
heartache · anguish · woe · loss · funeral · tears · inconsolable · eulogy · memorial · widow
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
homesick · lovesick · languishing · bereft · forlorn · lonely · aching · unfulfilled · bittersweet · regretful
tragic
Causing great sorrow
- poignantEvoking keen emotion
- heartrendingCausing overwhelming grief
- patheticArousing scornful pity
piteous · moving · affecting · lamentable · deplorable · regrettable · woebegone · threnody · jeremiad · plangent
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
distress · affliction · hardship · anguish · trauma · woe · torture · tribulation · ordeal · despair
funereal
Gloomily solemn in manner
- sepulchralRelating to burial chambers
- graveSerious and worrying
- solemnSerious and dignified
bleak · gloomy · dark · austere · subdued · muted · dreary · leaden · oppressive · cheerless
doleful, indolent, indolence, condolence, dolefully, condole, condolences, indolently, dolor