woeful

Meaning

1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
3. Lamentable, deplorable.
4. Wretched; paltry; poor.

Synonyms

sorrowful

miserable

sad

☹️

woebegone

mournful

poor

deplorable

grievous

doleful

wretched

woful

rueful

pathetic

execrable

sorry

crestfallen

distressing

gloomy

grieved

lamentable

lugubrious

piteous

tragic

warped

woe

wry

funereal

afflictive

grief-stricken

beggarly

despondent

hangdog

indigent

infelicitous

agonizing

lousy

low-spirited

cut-up

melancholy

depressed

misfortune

dejected

moving

dark

pathetical

chopfallen

pitiable

pitiful

cut up

punk

regrettable

crummy

chapfallen

saddening

shabby

shoddy

sordid

sorrow

bleak

adversity

subdued

terrible

touching

ropey

trashy

unfortunate

unfortunately

unhappy

☹️

distressed

stinky

dispirited

dolorous

downcast

downhearted

dreadful

drear

dreary

dismal

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwəʊfəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: woful

In summary

From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe + -ful. Compare Old English wālīċ (“woeful”), Old English tēonful (“woeful”).