woeful
adjective
1. affected by or full of grief or woe
Similar word(s): sorrowful, woebegone
2. of very poor quality or condition
- woeful treatment of the accused
- woeful errors of judgment
Similar word(s): inferior, deplorable, execrable, miserable, wretched
Sentences with woeful as an adjective:
- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — Daniel.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! — Pope.