Woeful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Affected by or full of woe; mournful.
  • adj. Causing or involving woe.
  • adj. Deplorably bad or wretched: woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors in judgment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
  • adj. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
  • adj. wretched; paltry; poor
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
  • adj. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
  • adj. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of woe; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; sorrowful.
  • Relating or pertaining to woe; expressing woe; characterized by sorrow or woe; deplorable.
  • Wretched; paltry; mean; pitiful.
  • =Syn.2. Mournful, calamitous, disastrous, afflictive, miserable, grievous. See woe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. affected by or full of grief or woe
  • adj. of very poor quality or condition
  • Equivalent
    sorrowful    inferior    woful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sorrowful    afflicted    wretched    unhappy    sad    paltry    miserable    poor    depressing    depressed   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    woful    piteous    sorrowful    lamentable    pitiable    heartrending    grievous    appal    direful    dreadful