'Woeful' definitions:
Definition of 'woeful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn: woebegone, woeful]
adjective
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, woeful, wretched]
Definition of 'Woeful'
From: GCIDE
- Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. [1913 Webster]
- How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. [1913 Webster]
- O woeful day! O day of woe! --Philips. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. [1913 Webster]
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope. [1913 Webster] Woefully
Synonyms of 'woeful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abominable,
- affecting,
- afflictive,
- aggrieved,
- anguished,
- arrant,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- bitter,
- blameworthy,
- bleak,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- careworn,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- contemptible,
- crushed,
- cut up,
- deep-troubled,
- dejected,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- discomforting,
- disconsolate,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dismaying,
- dispirited,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- doleful,
- dolorific,
- dolorogenic,
- dolorous,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- dumb with grief,
- egregious,
- enormous,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- flagrant,
- foul,
- fulsome,
- grave,
- grief-stricken,
- griefful,
- grieved,
- grievous,
- gross,
- harrowed,
- hateful,
- heart-stricken,
- heart-struck,
- heartbreaking,
- heartsick,
- heinous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- in grief,
- in the dumps,
- inconsolable,
- infamous,
- joyless,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- low-spirited,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- monstrous,
- mournful,
- moving,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- on the rack,
- outrageous,
- overcome,
- painful,
- pathetic,
- piteous,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plaintive,
- plangent,
- plunged in grief,
- poignant,
- racked,
- rank,
- regrettable,
- reprehensible,
- repulsive,
- rotten,
- rueful,
- ruthful,
- sad,
- saddening,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- scurvy,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- sharp,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- sordid,
- sore,
- sorrowed,
- sorrowful,
- sorrowing,
- squalid,
- stricken,
- suicidal,
- tearful,
- terrible,
- too bad,
- tortured,
- touching,
- unclean,
- uncomfortable,
- unfortunate,
- unprecedented,
- vile,
- villainous,
- woebegone,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched,
- wrung