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woeful [ˈwəʊfəl] adj
1. expressing or characterized by sorrow 2. bringing or causing woe 3. pitiful; miserable a woeful standard of work woefully adv woefulness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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 Translations woeful [ˈwəʊfʊl] ADJ 1. (= lamentable) [lack, ignorance, state] → lamentable, deplorable 2. (liter) (= sad) [person] → afligido, desconsolado; [look, expression] → de desconsuelo, de congoja; [tale] → triste woeful [ˈwəʊfʊl] adj (= sad) [person, eyes, song] → triste (= terrible) [state, display, performance, attempt] → consternant(e) woeful woeful [ˈwəʊfʊl] adj (sad) → triste; (deplorable) → deplorevole, vergognoso/a woeful [ˈwəʊfʊl] adj (sad) → triste; (deplorable) → deplorevole, vergognoso/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I am going to unexplored regions, to "the land of mist and snow," but I shall kill no albatross; therefore do not be alarmed for my safety or if I should come back to you as worn and woeful as the "Ancient Mariner. At this point of his career Jo seemed to be getting a long way from the condition of orphanage; the interposition of a multitude of parents between himself and that woeful state promised him a long immunity from its disadvantages. It was some days before she saw Jane Fairfax, to judge of her honest regret in this woeful change; but when they did meet, her composure was odious. |
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