Hypertext Webster Gateway: "woeful"
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) 1.7 (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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