Woe·ful, Wo·ful  a.
  1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
  How many woeful widows left to bow
  To sad disgrace!   --Daniel.
  2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
     O woeful day! O day of woe!   --Philips.
  3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
     What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!   --Pope.
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