Woful
[wəʊfəl]
Definition
(a.) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
(a.) Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
(a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Written also Woeful.] [1]. Sorrowful, distressed, sad, afflicted, unhappy.[2]. Grievous, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, disastrous, calamitous, dreadful, tragical, deplorable.[3]. Wretched, paltry, mean, pitiful.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Doleful, sorrowful, rueful, wretched, piteous,[See COVET]
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Examples
- Thus adjured, Topsy confessed to the ribbon and gloves, with woful protestations of penitence. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She looked on Clara with a countenance of woful meaning, but she did not speak. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- With her woful eyes, so haggard and wild, so heavy and large, she looked all round the room, and passed the corner where he slept in his chair. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Millet's recent celebrated painting represents a brutal, primitive type of a man leaning heavily on a hoe as ancient and woful in character as the man himself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Yes, ma'am, says Topsy, with a deep sigh, and a face of woful earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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