woeful
adj.
sorrowful, unhappy, wretched, despondent; tragic; pitiable; poor
woeful
Adjective
1. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
(synonym) woebegone
(similar) sorrowful
2. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
(synonym) deplorable, execrable, miserable, wretched
(similar) inferior
Woeful
(a.)
Alt. of Woful
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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woeful
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
woeful
woeful /'wouful/ (woesome) /'wousəm/
tính từ buồn rầu, thiểu não (người) đáng buồn, đáng thươnga woeful event: một sự việc đáng buồn đau khổ, thống khổ, đầy tai ươnga woeful period: một thời kỳ đau khổ
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