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Distressing vs Dolorous - What's the difference?

distressing | dolorous |

As adjectives the difference between distressing and dolorous

is that distressing is causing distress; upsetting while dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad.

As a verb distressing

is present participle of lang=en.

distressing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing distress; upsetting

    • Verb

    (head)

    • dolorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Solemnly or ponderously sad.
  • * 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:
    • Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
    Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
    Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
  • * 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
    • . . . Hell itself will pass away,
    And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
  • * 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
    • From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
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  • * 2001 June 24, Stefan Kanfer, " Author, Teacher, Witness," Time :
    • As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.