Woeful - definition of woeful by The Free Dictionary 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
woeful - WordReference. com Dictionary of English woe•ful ˈwoʊfəl adj full of woe; wretched: a woeful situation in the war-torn country affected with, characterized by, or causing woe: the woeful news of the tragedy of poor quality; awful; terrible; deplorable: a woeful bunch of job applicants woe•ful•ly, adv : a woefully inadequate diet woe•ful•ness, n [uncountable]
WOEFUL definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary You can use woeful to emphasize that something is very bad or undesirable Such attitudes are the product of woeful ignorance the woeful state of the economy Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate Most of the ships were woefully short of ammunition Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
woeful - Wiktionary, the free dictionary woeful (comparative woefuller, superlative woefullest) Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity synonyms quotations Synonyms: miserable, woe; see also Thesaurus: sad