dolour
noun
[ ˈdɒlə ]
• a state of great sorrow or distress.
• "they squatted, hunched in their habitual dolour"
Similar:
sadness,
sorrow,
unhappiness,
dejection,
regret,
depression,
misery,
cheerlessness,
downheartedness,
despondency,
despair,
desolation,
wretchedness,
glumness,
gloom,
gloominess,
heaviness of heart,
dolefulness,
melancholy,
low spirits,
mournfulness,
woe,
broken-heartedness,
heartache,
grief,
down,
disconsolateness,
disconsolation,
dismalness,
Origin:
Middle English (denoting both physical and mental pain or distress): via Old French from Latin dolor ‘pain, grief’.
