Dolour

Quick meaning: Dolour is a noun meaning (countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

Meaning

(countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.

Example Sentences

But for all this thou ſhalt haue as many Dolors for thy Daughters, as thou canſt tell in a yeare.

[T]o think that I am going to leave her—and to leave her in distress and dolour—No, Miss Lucy, you need never think it!

Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.

Perchance a congregation to fulfil / Solemnities of silence in this doom, / Mysterious rites of dolour and despair / Permitting not a breath or chant of prayer?

Word Forms

• dolours
• dolor

Synonyms for dolour

Depending on context, synonyms include infelicity, joylessness, sadness, unhappiness, unjoy, dol.

Antonyms for dolour

Common opposites include elation, felicity, happiness, joy, hedon, util.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dolor, sorrow, misery, grame, languor, mourn.

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