Dolour in Scrabble and Meaning

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Is dolour a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dolour is a Scrabble US word. The word dolour is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is dolour a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dolour is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

D2O1L1O1U1R1

Is dolour a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dolour is a Words With Friends word. The word dolour is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

DOLOUR,

5-letter words (4 found)

DOLOR,DROOL,LOORD,ODOUR,

4-letter words (14 found)

DOOL,DOOR,DOUR,DURO,LOOR,LORD,LOUD,LOUR,LUDO,ODOR,ORDO,OULD,ROOD,ROUL,

3-letter words (20 found)

DOL,DOO,DOR,DUO,LOD,LOO,LOR,LOU,LUD,LUR,OLD,OOR,ORD,OUD,OUR,ROD,ROO,RUD,UDO,URD,

2-letter words (7 found)

DO,LO,OD,OO,OR,OU,UR,

You can make 46 words from dolour according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dolour

dolour

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)

  1. (chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
    Synonyms: infelicity, joylessness, sadness, unhappiness, unjoy
    Antonyms: elation, felicity, happiness, joy
  2. (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)

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Further reading

  • sorrow (emotion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Old French

Noun

dolour oblique singularf (oblique plural dolours, nominative singular dolour, nominative plural dolours)

  1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of dulur

Source: wiktionary.org