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Dolorous vs Measurable - What's the difference?

dolorous | measurable |

As adjectives the difference between dolorous and measurable

is that dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad while measurable is able to be measured.

As a noun measurable is

that which can be measured; a metric.

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.

    measurable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be measured.
  • Of significant importance.

    • Related terms

    * mensurable * measurability

    Derived terms

    * measurable function * Borel measurable * Lebesgue measurable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which can be measured; a metric.