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woe·ful

also wo·ful  (wō′fəl)
adj.
1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful: feeling woeful.
2. Causing, involving, or expressing woe: a woeful situation; woeful eyes.
3. Deplorably bad: woeful errors in judgment.
woe′ful·ly adv.
woe′ful·ness n.
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woeful

(ˈwəʊfəl) or

woesome

adj
1. expressing or characterized by sorrow
2. bringing or causing woe
3. pitiful; miserable: a woeful standard of work.
ˈwoefully, wofully adv
ˈwoefulness, wofulness n
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woe•ful

(ˈwoʊ fəl)

adj.
1. full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
2. affected with, characterized by, or indicating woe.
3. of wretched quality; sorry; poor: a woeful collection of paintings.
Sometimes, wo′ful.
[1250–1300]
woe′ful•ly, adv.
woe′ful•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.woeful - affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
woebegone
sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
2.woeful - of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
execrable, wretched, deplorable, miserable
inferior - of low or inferior quality
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woeful

adjective
1. wretched, sad, unhappy, tragic, miserable, gloomy, grieving, dismal, pathetic, afflicted, pitiful, anguished, agonized, disconsolate, doleful, pitiable those woeful people to whom life had dealt a bad hand
wretched happy, delighted, contented, glad, cheerful, jolly, jubilant, joyful, carefree, chirpy (informal)
2. sad, distressing, tragic, miserable, gloomy, dismal, pathetic, harrowing, heartbreaking, grievous, mournful, plaintive, heart-rending, sorrowful, doleful, piteous a woeful ballad about lost love
sad happy, joyful, light-hearted
3. pitiful, mean, bad, poor, shocking, sorry, disappointing, terrible, awful, appalling, disastrous, inadequate, dreadful, miserable, hopeless, rotten (informal), pathetic, catastrophic, duff (Brit. informal), feeble, disgraceful, lousy (slang), grievous, paltry, deplorable, abysmal, lamentable, calamitous, shitty (taboo slang), wretched, pitiable, godawful (slang), not much cop (Brit. slang) the team's recent woeful performance
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woeful

also woful
adjective
1. Suffering from usually prolonged anguish:
miserable, woebegone, wretched.
2. Full of or expressive of sorrow:
doleful, dolorous, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, rueful, sad, sorrowful, woebegone.
3. Causing sorrow or regret:
deplorable, doleful, dolorous, grievous, lamentable, mournful, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful.
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Translations
بائِس، تَعيس، مُثير للأسى، مُكْتَئِب
sorgfuld
búbánatos
sorgbitinn, hryggur
kederliüzgün

woeful

[ˈwəʊfʊl] ADJ
1. (= lamentable) [lack, ignorance, state] → lamentable, deplorable
2. (liter) (= sad) [person] → afligido, desconsolado; [look, expression] → de desconsuelo, de congoja; [tale] → triste
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

woeful

[ˈwəʊfʊl] adj
(= sad) [person, eyes, song] → triste
(= terrible) [state, display, performance, attempt] → consternant(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

woeful

adj (= sad) → traurig; (= deplorable) neglect also, ignorance, lack → bedauerlich, beklagenswert
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

woeful

[ˈwəʊfʊl] adj (sad) → triste; (deplorable) → deplorevole, vergognoso/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

woe

(wəu) noun
(a cause of) grief or misery. He has many woes; He told a tale of woe.
ˈwoeful adjective
miserable; unhappy. a woeful expression.
ˈwoefully adverb
ˈwoefulness noun
ˈwoebegone (-bigon) adjective
sad-looking. a woebegone face.
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