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doloriferous

/ˌdʌləˈɹɪfəɹəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
do-lorif-er-ous
IPA
/ˌdʌləˈɹɪfəɹəs/
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Producing pain.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

Latin dolōrifer, from dolor (“sorrow, pain”)

Usage

Inflected Forms

more doloriferous (comparative) most doloriferous (superlative)

Rhymes With

carboniferous fossiliferous cruciferous seminiferous odoriferous splendiferous luminiferous metalliferous floriferous auriferous stoloniferous calciferous

Questions

How do you pronounce doloriferous?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌdʌləˈɹɪfəɹəs/.
What does doloriferous mean?
Producing pain.
Where does doloriferous come from?
Latin dolōrifer, from dolor (“sorrow, pain”)

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