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[ woh-fuhl ] / ˈwoʊ fəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR woeful ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivefull of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation. affected with, characterized by, or indicating woe: woeful melodies. of wretched quality; sorry; poor: a woeful collection of paintings. Origin of woefulMiddle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at woe, -ful SYNONYMS FOR woeful3 unpromising, unlikely, dreadful, awful. SEE SYNONYMS FOR woeful ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM woefulwoe·ful·ly, adverbwoe·ful·ness, nounun·woe·ful, adjectiveun·woe·ful·ly, adverb un·woe·ful·ness, noun Words nearby woefulWoden, wodge, Wodzislaw Slaski, woe, woebegone, woeful, woesome, wof, Woffington, wog, woggle Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for woefulAnd its woeful end is a reminder that the U.S. has few good options in its attempts to bring American prisoners home. Did U.S. Policy Get Luke Somers Killed?|Shane Harris|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST It operated a fleet of very old airplanes and had such a woeful safety record that FAA inspectors wanted to ground it. Malaysia Airlines Is Going Down|Clive Irving|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST In much of the DRC, roads are in a woeful state of disrepair, and in Goma, the conditions are especially dire. Victims No More: Congo’s Badass Women Mechanics|Nina Strochlic|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else. Russian History Is on Our Side: Putin Will Surely Screw Himself|P. J. O’Rourke|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I sat in a suite at the Savoy hotel, in privilege, resenting the woeful ratbag I once was who, for all his problems, had drugs. There's a Reason That Addicts Say Yes to Drugs|Megan McArdle|March 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST Nathalie wept on in woeful lamentation, feeling with the untriedness of youth that she was a great martyr. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer|Rena I. Halsey This would serve to impress the reader with the woeful vicissitudes of sublunary things. Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 of 2|Nathaniel Hawthorne He was deathly pale, dripping with water, and in his bonny blue eyes was a wild, woeful look that made my blood run cold. The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation|A. M. Barnard A brief interval of silence followed her woeful declaration. Marjorie Dean College Freshman|Pauline Lester Arrived at his starting-point, he dropped Jeremiah to the ground, who slowly rose, in a woeful plight. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3)|Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
British Dictionary definitions for woeful
adjectiveexpressing or characterized by sorrow bringing or causing woe pitiful; miserablea woeful standard of work Derived forms of woefulwoefully, adverbwoefulness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to woefuldreadful, wretched, paltry, shocking, pathetic, calamitous, feeble, lamentable, disappointing, lousy, disastrous, awful, miserable, pitiful, appalling, deplorable, sorry, grim, afflicted, bad |