doloroso

Meaning

  1. painful (causing pain)
  2. hurtful (hurting someone’s feelings)
  3. dolorous (solemnly or ponderously sad)

Opposite of
indolor
Frequency

C1
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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