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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) orwoesome
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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| Adj. | 1. | woeful - affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier 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" 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)
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
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 wofuladjective
2. Full of or expressive of sorrow:
3. Causing sorrow or regret:
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Translations
بائِس، تَعيس، مُثير للأسى، مُكْتَئِب
sorgfuld
búbánatos
sorgbitinn, hryggur
kederliüzgün
woeful
[ˈwəʊfʊl] ADJ1. (= 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
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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 adverbˈwoefulness noun
ˈwoebegone (-bigon) adjective
sad-looking. a woebegone face.
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