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dolorously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
do-lor-ous-ly
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a dolorous manner.

Etymology

From Middle English dolerousely, dolorouxly, dolorusly; equivalent to dolorous + -ly.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more dolorously (comparative) most dolorously (superlative) dolourously (alternative)

Questions

What does dolorously mean?
In a dolorous manner.
Where does dolorously come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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