woeful
- Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
- Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- Lamentable, deplorable.
- Wretched; paltry; poor.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈwəʊfəl/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe + -ful. Compare Old English wālīċ (“woeful”), Old English tēonful (“woeful”).
woful
malheureux
αξιολύπητος
triste
lacrimabilis
dilbikul
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