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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-213/
- Published: 2020-08-26T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-09-18T09:32:52.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

dolorous (adj) – Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/dolorous?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Circa 1400, “causing grief,” also “causing pain, painful” (a sense now obsolete), from Old French doloros “painful; sorrowful, wretched” (12th century, Modern French douloureux) from Late Latin dolorosus “painful, sorrowful,” from Latin dolor “pain, grief,” perhaps from PIE root \*delh- “to chop” “under the assumption than ‘pain’ was expressed by the feeling of ‘being torn apart'”.

Sense of “exciting or expressing grief or distress” is from mid-15c. Of persons or feelings, “full of sorrow,” from 1510s.

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