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doloroso

Spanish, adjective/doloˈɾoso/

doloroso is spelled D-O-L-O-R-O-S-O (8 letters) and appears 8.1 times per million words in written Spanish, the 8,364th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doloroso is a Spanish adjective meaning “painful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que causa o produce dolor”.

What does doloroso mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    painful

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que causa o produce dolor.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of doloroso

  • dolorosa feminine
  • dolorosos masculine plural
  • dolorosas feminine plural
  • dolorosísimo superlative
  • dolorísimo superlative

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce doloroso?

  • /doloˈɾoso/
  • [d̪o.loˈɾo.so]
  • [d̪oloˈɾoso]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to doloroso

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is doloroso in Spanish?

doloroso appears 8.1 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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