Difference between Sorrowful and Dolorous

SORROWFUL vs DOLOROUS: ADJECTIVE

Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. : sad.
Causing sorrow.
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.

Synonyms See list under doleful.
Painful; giving pain.
Exciting or expressing sorrow, grief, or distress; dismal; mournful: as, a dolorous object; a dolorous region; dolorous sighs.

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Piteous, Drear, Elegiac, Wistful, Plangent, Melancholic, Lugubrious, Melancholy, Mournful, Doleful, Dolourous, Tearful, Weeping, Sorrowful, Lachrymose

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Piteous, Drear, Elegiac, Wistful, Plangent, Melancholic, Lugubrious, Melancholy, Mournful, Doleful, Dolourous, Tearful, Weeping, Sorrowful, Lachrymose

It was so sorrowful that my eyes teared up.
John the Divine are not so sorrowful as yesterday.
When he spoke his voice was resigned and sorrowful.
Patrons modulate dollar from sorrowful walk of American drugs.
He would always look like a sorrowful white boy.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
To this sorrowful appeal Moses answers with encouragement.
Francis Hospital, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Rev.
It is sorrowful only for those left behind.
Parting is sorrowful but to choose the other over God is more sorrowful and has eternal consequences.

After all, a people overly burdened by the dolorous superstitions of tragic wisdom could never have come to embrace the doctrine of resurrection.
Things were moving in the caves that dotted the gorge, thin fellow bent over his lab bench examining tissue culture tubes, dolorous.
Now and again he broke into song: a dolorous, laid out in a codicil that Cholon had brought back from Illyricum.
Brourman's Transylvanian intensity chimed in quite engagingly after an overly dolorous patch when we segued to the folksy high-energy section.
Bran and Meera arrive at Castle Black and are let inside by Dolorous Edd.
Sort of king knowing a few angles, having suffered a dolorous stroke?
Mansfield with so dolorous yt humorous recollection of his services as a junior, has long ceast!
Purvis, nodding with an air of knowing confirmation as she finished reading this dolorous item.
England are double more dolorous unto my heart than ever were the troubles of Scotland.
This water doth send forth a dolorous groan.