Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective In a mournful or plaintive manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, noting a soft and pathetic manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music
plaintively ;pathetically
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Ammettiamo che l'abbia realmente proferita dal suo doloroso esilio.
Jeffrey Katzenberg Tells All to the Vatican Steve Hulett 2009
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Is a bicycle made out of a crucifix a velo doloroso?
BSYNC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Hacerlo con frecuencia desarrolla la imaginación; entre dos, enriquece conocimiento; de rodillas, resulta doloroso.
veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008
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Reverteremos à intolerância para defender a liberdade que doloroso paradoxo?
Ofensas Artur 2008
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Recuerda que al igual que el parto es doloroso esta práctica también puede serlo si no la realizas adecuadamente.
IBM'ers invade TN 2007
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As imagens serão relegadas ao pó e à prateleira, e o novo caderno está cheio de páginas insuportavelmente brancas, vazias, anunciando um vácuo doloroso.
... Artur 2006
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Já é suficientemente doloroso deixar a cadela longe por algumas horas.
Margarida Artur 2006
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Desde aquel doloroso momento; but this kind of music had lost its charm for them, and I was asked to give them the ballad they understood so well, in which their interest seemed to increase with every repetition.
Green Mansions 2004
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Audientes igitur nobilium vxores ipsius insulæ se viduatas, super his, in doloroso furore animi ad plures congressiones occiderunt et fugauerunt omnes aliarum mulierum maritos, ne scilicet sua ingennitas subiaceret voluntati, et potestati plebis.
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Audientes igitur nobilium vxores ipsius insul� se viduatas, super his, in doloroso furore animi ad plures congressiones occiderunt et fugauerunt omnes aliarum mulierum maritos, ne scilicet sua ingennitas subiaceret voluntati, et potestati plebis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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