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woeful
woeful
English
Adjective
woeful (comparative woefuller, superlative woefullest)
- Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
- Daniel
- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!
- Daniel
- Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- wretched; paltry; poor
- Alexander Pope
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!
- Alexander Pope
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:lamentable