Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Woful"

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.


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