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adjective

Woful, Woeful adj.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. "How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!"

Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. "O woeful day! O day of woe!"

Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. "What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!"

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Etymology of 'Woeful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Woeful" Quotes from Famous Books

... musician on the street corner forces himself to play to the passing crowd, for the pennies that are dropped in his tin cup. Rather was he driven by the conviction of a great truth, and by the realization of its woeful need in the world, to such adequate expression as his mastery of the tools of his craft would permit He was not, now, the slave of his technical knowledge; striving to produce a something that should be merely technically good. ...

— The Eyes of the World • Harold Bell Wright

... "And what luck! I always said that Peter would never marry, because he would insist on taking women seriously, and because at heart he was afraid of them to a woeful degree, and showed it in such a way, as simply to make women think he didn't like them individually. But Miss Luck wouldn't allow that. Oh, no! Miss Luck isn't content even that Peter shall take his chance of getting a wife, with ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... not been at all well. He is sitting up in his room, and his doctor has come to see him for the third time in three days. This means that the malady is not yet seriously regarded: once a day is still sufficient. Nevertheless, he is a woeful wreck to look at; and the doctor looks at him with the greatest respect, and listens to his querulous plaint patiently. For that great dome of silence, his brain, repository of so many state-secrets, is still ...

— Angels & Ministers • Laurence Housman

... robes. At first I thought that he was dead, he sat so still; but at length he turned his head, and I saw that his eyes were white and sightless. He was blind, and his face was thin as the face of a dead man, and woeful with ...

— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard

... and the "Song of the Way-Tamer," are among the most deeply poetical hymns of the Edda. They relate to the same great event—the death of Balder—and are full of mystery and fear. A strange trouble has fallen upon the gods, the oracles are silent, and a dark, woeful foreboding seizes on all things living. Odin mounts his steed, Sleipner, and descends to hell to consult the Vala there in her tomb, and to extort from her, by runic incantations, the fate of his son. This "Descent of Odin" ...

— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

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