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Dolorous

Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

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Sorrowful 84% connected

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Sorrowful 84% connected

Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

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Dolor 74% connected

Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dolor 74% connected

Pain; grief; distress; anguish.

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Lachrymose 92% connected

Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tearful 92% connected

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

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Weeping 92% connected

of Weep

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Baleful adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Choke-full adjective · 78% connection

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

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Contrite adjective · 78% connection

Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Dermatologist noun · 78% connection

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Dismal adjective · 78% connection

Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal…

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Dissertator noun · 78% connection

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Doleful adjective · 78% connection

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.

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Dolesome adjective · 78% connection

Doleful; dismal; gloomy; sorrowful.

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Elenge adjective · 78% connection

Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble.

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Emblem noun · 78% connection

A visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural ap…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Ethical adjective · 78% connection

Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or…

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Full Compar. · 78% connection

Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Funest adjective · 78% connection

Lamentable; doleful.

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Griefful adjective · 78% connection

Full of grief or sorrow.

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Grieve verb · 78% connection

To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to afflict; to hurt; to try.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Grieving adjective · 78% connection

Sad; sorrowful; causing grief.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Grievous adjective · 78% connection

Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: full, grief, sorrowful, doleful, dismal.
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Heartbreak noun · 78% connection

Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.

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