Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Woeful

Woeful , adjective

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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