Wailful

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wailful \Wail"ful\, a.
     Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." --Spenser.
     "Wailful sonnets." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wailful
       adj : vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
             expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners";
             "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her
             desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: {lamenting},
              {wailing}]