doloroso
Meaning
- painful (causing pain)
- hurtful (hurting someone’s feelings)
- dolorous (solemnly or ponderously sad)
Concepts
poignant
Opposite of
indolor
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Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/do.loˈɾo.zu/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin dolōrōsus (“painful”), from Latin dolor (“pain; grief”) + -ōsus (“-ous”). Displaced the inherited Old Galician-Portuguese dooroso.
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