Woeful

3 definitions found

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

  Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a.
     1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity;
        afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
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              How many woeful widows left to bow


              To sad disgrace!                      --Daniel.
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     2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful
        event; woeful want.
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              O woeful day! O day of woe!           --Philips.
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     3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
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              What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  woeful
       adj 1: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him
              look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
              [syn: {woebegone}]
       2: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
          conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
          accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: {deplorable},
          {execrable}, {miserable}, {wretched}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "woeful":
     abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant,
     atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter,
     blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, careworn, cheerless,
     comfortless, contemptible, crushed, cut up, deep-troubled,
     dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate,
     despicable, detestable, dire, discomforting, disconsolate,
     disgusting, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful,
     distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast,
     downhearted, dreadful, dreary, dumb with grief, egregious,
     enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave,
     grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, gross, harrowed,
     hateful, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbreaking, heartsick,
     heinous, horrible, horrid, in grief, in the dumps, inconsolable,
     infamous, joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low-spirited,
     lugubrious, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty,
     nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
     on the rack, outrageous, overcome, painful, pathetic, piteous,
     pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant,
     racked, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten,
     rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy,
     shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sore, sorrowed,
     sorrowful, sorrowing, squalid, stricken, suicidal, tearful,
     terrible, too bad, tortured, touching, unclean, uncomfortable,
     unfortunate, unprecedented, vile, villainous, woebegone, worst,
     worthless, wretched, wrung