woeful (redirected from woful)

woe·ful also wo·ful  (wfl)

adj.

1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful.

2. Causing or involving woe.

3. Deplorably bad or wretched: woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors in judgment.

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woeful·ly adv.

woeful·ness n.

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woeful [ˈwəʊf^əl]

adj

1. expressing or characterized by sorrow

2. bringing or causing woe

3. pitiful; miserable a woeful standard of work

woefully  adv

woefulness  n

Thesaurus

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

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

adj (= sad) → traurig; (= deplorable) neglect also, ignorance, lack → bedauerlich, beklagenswert

woeful [ˈwəʊfʊl] adj (sad) → triste; (deplorable) → deplorevole, vergognoso/a