(a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
(a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.
Example Sentences:
(1) The party’s dolorous condition is confirmed by every poll that places them fifth in the national rankings, behind Ukip and the Greens.
(2) Positive cutaneous tests with coccidioidin (33.8%) and cryptococcin (31.9%) in Villa Dolores were obtained.
(3) "Education widows have been failed by the education system," says Dolores Dickson, executive director of girls' education organisation Camfed in Ghana.
(4) The injuries are mainly caused by the dolorous contact with the boom, by stumbling on board a ship and by jumping on the landing-stage.
(5) By means of starch gel electrophoresis, 16-20 loci coding for enzymes and hemoglobin have been investigated in six population samples of Akodon dolores, captured in a single site of the Córdoba province (Argentina) during a 3-year period and in three samples of an Akodon azarae population.
(6) Dolores Dooley Clarke describes how the course in medical ethics at University College, Cork is structured, how it has changed and how it is likely to change as time goes on.
(7) Dolores Piperno, who led the study at the archaeobiology laboratory at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, said the work showed Neanderthals were more sophisticated diners than many academics gave them credit for.
(8) A 28 year old female was admitted to the hospital with dolorous postprandial swelling of the left upper epigastrium, occurring since the recent death of her husband.
(9) Burke referred to Bishop as Dolores Umbridge, the Harry Potter character.)
(10) They are coming together because they know in unity is where ultimate victory lies," said Dolores Canales, co-founder of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement .
(11) X-ray mammography as well as clinical criteria and anamnestic factors should be used for the diagnosis of breast abscesses (calor, rubor, tumor, dolor) and for the diagnosis of fat necrosis (surgery, trauma).
(12) In 1932, during the run of the musical on Broadway, he met and married Dolores Read, a nightclub singer, with whom he remained all his life; they adopted four children.
(13) Spain was one of the few countries where the governing party actually won the European elections, pointed out People's party president María Dolores de Cospedal.
(14) We've met him a number of times, and he'll listen to you, but his office is continuously locked,” said Dolores Huerta, a veteran labour leader and civil rights activist.
(15) Toledo city guide: what to see plus the best restaurants, tapas bars and hotels Read more Highlights might include a picnic of the best Iberian jamón, cheese and local wine in the courtyard of the 17th-century Cardinal’s House ( lacasadelcardenal.com ), now a high-end antique shop, or a stop at La Recova (Pasaje Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de San Juan 5, la recova.es ), a ceramics and secondhand shop with a cafe where locals linger over breakfasts of bread, tomatoes, crema (delicious flavoured lard) spreads and coffee – all for €2.20.
(16) F1 and backcross hybrids were produced between the Dolores and Candelaria stocks.
(17) Spare a thought, too, for the dolorous impact of Wednesday's developments on ordinary Afghans and rank-and-file western soldiers sent to assist them.
(18) Expanding on this in an interminable review of the Journal, James is baffled by the way that the "weakness" of these "furious névrosés" "appears to them a source of glory or even of dolorous general interest".
(19) This is no doubt why María Dolores de Cospedal, general secretary of the ruling Partido Popular (PP), recently boasted that its supporters "would go hungry" rather than fail to pay their mortgage.
(20) The diagnosis of a wound infection is made upon the classical symptoms dolor, rubor, calor, tumor and functio laesa and depends on continuous wound care and repeated clinical judgement.
Ponderous
Definition:
(a.) Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant.
(a.) Important; momentous; forcible.
(a.) Heavy; dull; wanting; lightless or spirit; as, a ponderous style; a ponderous joke.
Example Sentences:
(1) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(2) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(3) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.
(4) The results indicated significant negative correlations between maternal plasma zinc and albumin-bound zinc concentrations and plasma copper concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and mid-arm circumference and ponderal index.
(5) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
(6) Some epidemiological data have been collected, among which: the importance of ponderal overload in patients studied and the prevalence of the right joints diseases on the left one's.
(7) Nor do most of its users – as they check out the capital of Georgia or guiltily plagiarise the entry on Marx – ponder how this Eden is sustained in its spotless state of nature.
(8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(9) The air was sampled daily by glass fiber's filters; a ponderal determination of total particulate was made; PAH was dosed by gas-chromatography and by mass spectrometry, metals was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry.
(10) In these six pairs a normal ponderal index in the lighter twin members was associated with poorer growth than a low ponderal index.
(11) The ponderal quantity of 140 S antigens and their peptide distribution are controlled in concentrated virulent and inactivated preparations proir to their being transformed into vaccines.
(12) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
(13) Objective identification of infants with significant intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was done using the ponderal index (PI).
(14) Plasma lipid levels were significantly lower when the animals received the diets containing milk instead of the diet without milk: cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and LDL-cholesterol were reduced by 5.6, 5.8 and 10% respectively (pondered means) while HDL-cholesterol remained unaffected.
(15) I pondered the scene once or twice last week, with the news dominated by Lord Rennard and ongoing allegations of his having groped women .
(16) The mean fetal ponderal index of the controls was 8.60 (SD 0.84) and in the risk group 7.72.
(17) Correlation analysis revealed that longer average initial fixation time was associated with male sex, shorter birth length, and larger ponderal index.
(18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
(19) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
(20) At birth, 14 normal babies had average ponderal indices, 14 were overweight for length (high ponderal index), 18 were underweight for length (low ponderal index), and 15 had short crown-heel lengths for dates and normal ponderal indices.