dolour

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman dolour, Old French dolour, dolor, dulur (“pain”) (modern French douleur (“pain; distress”)), from Latin dolor (“ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment”), from doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). The English word is a doublet of dol. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒlə/, /ˈdəʊlə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊlɚ/ Homophone: dollar (some accents) Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ), -əʊlə(ɹ) Hyphenation: dol‧our === Noun === dolour (countable and uncountable, plural dolours) (British spelling) (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow. Synonyms: infelicity, joylessness, sadness, unhappiness, unjoy Antonyms: elation, felicity, happiness, joy (countable, economics, ethics) In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes. Synonym: dol Antonyms: hedon, util, utile, utilon ==== Alternative forms ==== dolor (American spelling) ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === pain === References === === Further reading === sorrow (emotion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Old French == === Noun === dolour oblique singular, f (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours) Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur