What does "woeful" mean?
Woeful: Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want. O woeful day! O day of woe! Philips.
Additional senses
- 2.Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! Pope.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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