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woeful |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a. 1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! --Daniel. 2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as a woeful event; woeful want O woeful day! O day of woe! --Philips. 3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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