woeful
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwəʊfəl/
woeful (comparative woefuller, superlative woefullest)
- Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
, Civil War - How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!
- Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- Lamentable, deplorable.
- Wretched; paltry; poor.
- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
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