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wailful |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wailful \Wail"ful\, a. Sorrowful; mournful. `` Like wailful widows.'' --Spenser. ``Wailful sonnets.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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