1 [usuallybeforenoun] very bad or serious; that you disapprove of
SYNDEPLORABLE:
She displayed a woeful ignorance of the rules.
2 (literary or formal) very sad:
a woeful face * woeful tales of broken romances
woefully adverb:
His performance was woefully inadequate. * 'I'll never see him again,' she sighed woefully.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for woeful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is woeful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, woeful is tagged as adjective.
Does woeful appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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