Synonyms of dolorous

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dolorous

adjective

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as in mournful

expressing or suggesting mourning

dolorous ballads of death and regret

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mournful
• weeping
• funeral
• bitter
• heartbroken
• melancholy
• doleful
• wailing
• sorrowful
• lugubrious
• grieving
• plaintive
• anguished
• lamentable
• plangent
• sad
• agonized
• bewailing
• aching
• somber
• tearful
• woeful
• rueful
• unhappy
• regretful
• funereal
• morbid
• sorry
• deploring
• bemoaning
• dark
• bleak
• keening
• depressed
• crying
• elegiac
• pathetic
• moody
• groaning
• dolesome
• moaning
• darkening
• gloomy
• miserable
• woebegone
• downcast
• disconsolate
• despondent
• forlorn
• dispirited
• piteous
• glum
• downcast
• dejected
• desolate
• inconsolable
• heartsick
• morose
• crestfallen
• howling
• gray
• cheerless
• downhearted
• triste
• gloomy
• miserable
• careworn
• sullen
• wretched
• joyless
• suffering
• dreary
• downhearted
• saturnine
• bleeding
• heartsore
• dismal
• glum
• black
• low-spirited
• sombre
• bawling
• comfortless
• brokenhearted
• pessimistic
• elegiacal
• yammering
• low
• dirgelike
• grey

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joyful
• triumphant
• cheerful
• happy
• bright
• cheery
• joyous
• smiling
• delighted
• merry
• laughing
• mirthful
• jolly
• exulting
• blithe
• blissful
• buoyant
• rejoicing
• glorying
• lighthearted
• optimistic
• hopeful
• jocund
• blithesome
• rapturous
• rhapsodic
• cheering
• encouraging
• euphoric
• heady
• ecstatic
• giddy
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

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• joyful
• triumphant
• cheerful
• happy
• bright
• cheery
• joyous
• smiling
• delighted
• merry
• laughing
• mirthful
• jolly
• exulting
• blithe
• blissful
• buoyant
• rejoicing
• glorying
• lighthearted
• optimistic
• hopeful
• jocund
• blithesome
• rapturous
• rhapsodic
• cheering
• encouraging
• euphoric
• heady
• ecstatic
• giddy
• rhapsodical
• elated
• exhilarated

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