dolorously

adverb

as in sorrowfully
with feelings of bitterness or grief another country singer wailing dolorously about the faithless woman who done him wrong

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dolorously
  1. sorrowfully
  2. bitterly
  3. sadly
  4. mournfully
  5. painfully
Adverb
  • Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
Definition of sorrowfully
Adverb
  • Congressional Republicans are headed into the home stretch ahead of a crucial midterm election year bitterly divided over their competing legislative priorities.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
  • There were riots, protests and a bitterly divisive war in Vietnam that looked intractable.
    — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
Definition of bitterly
Adverb
  • Now the area was ablaze; Aragüés found out not long ago that, sadly, the memorial had burned.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Despite the heavy hitters attached, momentum has since stalled on the sci-fi project and it's sadly been shelved for the immediate future.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of sadly
Adverb
  • Mayfield watched mournfully in his kitchen while the rest of the family sat in the living room with the big screen next to a Christmas tree.
    — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
  • So is the moment early in the film when Mary mournfully looks on as her long-ago home faces demolition to make room for a big, featureless residential complex.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2026
Definition of mournfully
Adverb
  • In applications like video calls, Xittel and Starlink’s round-trip signal delays became painfully obvious.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026
  • Besides the hike in energy use and cost, being home more often has led to more people becoming painfully aware of how poorly their systems run.
    — Alora Bopray, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Definition of painfully
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“Dolorously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dolorously. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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