Crossword-Solution: DOLOROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dolorous | a. | Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. |
| Dolorous | a. | Occasioning pain or grief; painful. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “DOLOROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a dirge | 1 answer |
| Very sad | 7 answers |
| Regrettable | 27 answers |
| heartbreaking | 27 answers |
| plaintive | 28 answers |
| afflictive | 31 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| anguished | 36 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| Rueful | 58 answers |
| deplorable | 60 answers |
| grievous | 61 answers |
| Afflicted | 61 answers |
| Mournful | 63 answers |
| woeful | 67 answers |
| Doleful. | 72 answers |
| Sad | 86 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DOLOROUS (5)
When I sought to tell Of battles and of kings, the Cynthian god Plucked at mine ear and warned me: "Tityrus, Beseems a shepherd-wight to feed fat sheep, But sing a slender song." Now, Varus, I- For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds, And treat of dolorous wars- will rather tune To the slim oaten reed my silvan lay.
The small maiden, docile but exceedingly dolorous, dragged reluctant feet homewards, heavy at heart that she was to behold no stout fellows slain that day; but Harold and I held steadily on, expecting every instant to see the environing hedges crackle and spit forth the leaden death.
The Burgundy from the public house at the corner warmed her heart, and she forgot that she ought to preserve a dolorous countenance.
Now and again some unseen coyote signals his pack in a long-drawn, dolorous whine that comes from no determinate point, but nothing stirs much before mid-afternoon.
LXXXIV Eustace recalled her, and bespake her thus: “Beauty’s chief darling, let those sorrows be, For such assistance shall you find in us As with your need, or will, may best agree:” With that she cheered her forehead dolorous, And smiled for joy, that Phoebus blushed to see, And had she deigned her veil for to remove, The God himself once more had fallen in love.
Quotes with DOLOROUS (3)
Having solved all the major mathematical, physical, chemical, biological, sociological, philosophical, etymological, meteorological and psychological problems of the Universe except for his own, three times over, [Marvin] was severely stuck for something to do, and had taken up composing short dolorous ditties of no tone, or indeed tune. The latest one was a lullaby. Marvin droned, Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won't engulf my head, I can see in infrared, He paused …
We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expected
In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives with eyes hollower than those of suburban streetwalkers; music-hall chorus girls who tip creosote into their Roederer when getting drunk... I have even had the awkward androgynes, the unsexed dishes of the day of the *tables d'hote* of Montmartre. Like any vulgar follower of fashion, like any member of the herd, I have m…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).