Dolor

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŒlÉ™(r)

Alternative forms

• dolour

Origin

Anglo-Norman dolour, mainland Old French dolor (modern douleur), from Latin dolor ("pain, grief").

Full definition of dolor

Noun

1. (literary) sorrow, grief, misery or anguish
2. a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
• 1986, Rosemarie Tong, Ethics in policy analysis, Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress...

Antonyms

• (unit of pain) hedon

Anagrams

• drool