dolour

Meaning

1. Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
2. In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

Synonyms

dolor

sorrow

distress

grief

affliction

regretfulness

sadness

smartness

sorriness

torment

woe

pain

alms

anguish

chagrin

painfulness

Hyphenated as

dol‧our

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɒlə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: dolour

Cognate with French: douleur

In summary

From Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman dolour, Old French dolour, dolor, dulur (“pain”) (modern French douleur (“pain; distress”)), from Latin dolor (“ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment”), from doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). The English word is a doublet of dol.