dolor

n.
Sorrow; grief.

[Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor, pain, from dolēre, to suffer, feel pain.]

(DO-luhr)
, also dolour, noun
Sorrow; grief.

Etymology
From Middle English dolour, from Old French, from Latin dolor (pain), from dolere (to feel pain). A related word is dol, the unit of pain.

Usage
"Leads her to a lowly room. Which she makes a chapel of. Where she genuflects to love. All the prayerbooks in her eyes Open soft as sacrifice Or the dolour of a dove. Tender candles ray by ray Warm and gratify the gray." — From the poem "The Anniad" Book: Annie Allen, 1949.

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n

Definition: misery, anguish
Antonyms: cheer, happiness, hopefulness

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(dō′lôr)
n

Any kind of pain.

[L.] pain; one of the cardinal signs of inflammation.

IN BRIEF: n. - (poetry) painful grief.

Tutor's tip: She wasn't "duller" (slower to understand; more boring) than her friend, but she did feel the "dolor" (a state of extreme sorrow or pain) of not having even one "dollar" (paper currency equal to 100 cents) in her pocket.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - sorg, smerte

Nederlands (Dutch)
smart

Français (French)
n. - douleur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Leid, Schmerz

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - άλγος, πόνος, λύπη, οδύνη

Italiano (Italian)
dolore

Português (Portuguese)
n. - angústia (f) (Poét.)

Русский (Russian)
печаль, беда

Español (Spanish)
n. - dolor

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - poet. smärta

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
悲哀, 伤心

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 悲哀, 傷心

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 비탄

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 悲しみ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تهجئه بريطانيه لكلمه Dolor , أسى, حزن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צער, תוגה, יגון‬

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