DOLOROUS Synonyms

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• brought low in spirit

• affected or marked by low spirits

• without or almost without hope

• filled with or evoking sadness

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• full of sorrow

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• expressing sorrow

• filled with or evoking sadness

• emotionally hurt or upset or annoyed

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• experiencing intense pain especially mental pain

• tormented or harassed by nightmares or unreasonable fears

• affected by or full of grief or woe

• of very poor quality or condition

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• very unhappy; full of misery

• morally reprehensible

• deserving or inciting pity

• feel grief

• cause to feel sorrow

• showing sorrow