Causing or producing pain, grief, or sorrow; sorrowful or mournful in character.
From Latin dolor (pain/sorrow) + -ferous (bearing/producing); a rare literary term formed in the 16th-17th centuries.
This word feels deliberately archaic and poetic—almost no one uses 'doloriferous' today, but poets and classical scholars still appreciate it for its lovely, tragic sound.
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