dolent

From Middle English dolent, from Old French dolent, from Latin dolēns, present participle of doleō (“to grieve”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊlənt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊlənt/

dolent (comparative more dolent, superlative most dolent)

1. (archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:

     Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city
     Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,
     With horror ever deepening from the first.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 148:

     ‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.

Inherited from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering, in pain”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [duˈlen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [doˈlent]

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dolent (feminine dolenta, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. bad
2. evil

   Synonyms: malvat, malèfic

3. (Valencia) ill

   Synonym: malalt

4. aching
5. morally afflicted

• dolenteria
• dolentíssim

dolent

1. gerund of doldre

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “dolent”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “dolent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dolent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Inherited from Middle French dolent, from Old French dolent, borrowed from Latin dolentem (“hurting, suffering”).

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.lɑ̃/

dolent (feminine dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. (archaic) mournful
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Il maigrit, sa taille s'allongea, et sa figure prit une sorte d'expression dolente qui la rendit presque intéressante.

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• douloir
• douleur

• “dolent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from Latin dolens.

• IPA^(key): [doˈlɛnt]
• Hyphenation: do‧lent

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dolent (strong nominative masculine singular dolenter, not comparable)

1. (medicine) painful

dolent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of doleō

From Old French dolent.

dolent m (feminine singular dolente, masculine plural dolents, feminine plural dolentes)

1. sad

• French: dolent

Borrowed from Latin dolēns, dolēntem (“hurting, suffering”).

dolent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular dolent or dolente)

1. painful; causing suffering and pain

• doloir
• dolor, dolur

• → Middle English: dolent
  • English: dolent
• Middle French: dolent
  • French: dolent