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Doleful vs Dolor - What's the difference?

doleful | dolor |

As an adjective doleful

is filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.

As a noun dolor is

pain, grief, sorrow, woe.

doleful

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
    • The doleful peal of the bell indicated another funeral was being held.

    dolor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dolour

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literary) sorrow, grief, misery or anguish
  • a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
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    • Antonyms

    * (unit of pain) hedon

    See also

    * (unit of pain) util

    Anagrams

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