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What is the adjective for wails?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs wail and waile which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

wailful
  1. (chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
  2. Examples:
      3. “A wailful host were the wives of his raftsmen widowed there by her watery music!”
      “He suggested that the poems, if the few lines he had seen made a fair sample, were rather of the wailful order.”
      “Clouds were gathering overhead, and a wailful wind made one moaning sweep through the trees behind us in the hollow.”
wailsome
  1. wailing
wailed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cried, wept, sobbed, bawled, blubbered, whined, keened, sniveled, snivelled, whimpered, blubbed, lamented, mewled, squalled, grieved, mourned, bleated, boohooed, puled, yowled, grizzled, howled, sniffed, weeped, whinged, bemoaned, bewailed, greeted, plained, shed tears, broke down, broken down, choked up, cracked up, teared up, burst into tears, dissolved in tears, howled your eyes out, rang the blues, rung the blues, sheded bitter tears, turned on the waterworks, turned on waterworks, cried your eyes out, let it all out, put on the weeps, let go, moaned, ululated, shed tears over … more
wailing
  1. present participle of wail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. crying, howling, screaming, yelling, bawling, squealing, shrieking, yelping, yowling, moaning, roaring, baying, caterwauling, whining, squalling, whimpering, keening, ululating, growling, groaning, croaking, lamenting, wauling, crying loudly, hollering, squawking, yawping, grumbling, bleating, griping, whingeing, screeching, muttering, carping, complaining, grouching, murmuring, grousing, inveighing, beefing, nagging, bellyaching, yammering, grizzling, fussing, repining, shouting, grumping, maundering, kvetching … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The wailing wind echoed through the empty streets, a haunting reminder of the town's sorrowful past.”
wailed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cried, wept, sobbed, bawled, blubbered, whined, keened, sniveled, snivelled, whimpered, blubbed, lamented, mewled, squalled, grieved, mourned, bleated, boohooed, puled, yowled, grizzled, howled, sniffed, weeped, whinged, bemoaned, bewailed, greeted, plained, shed tears, broke down, broken down, choked up, cracked up, teared up, burst into tears, dissolved in tears, howled your eyes out, rang the blues, rung the blues, sheded bitter tears, turned on the waterworks, turned on waterworks, cried your eyes out, let it all out, put on the weeps, let go, moaned, ululated, shed tears over … more
wailing
  1. present participle of wail
  2. Synonyms:
      3. crying, howling, screaming, yelling, bawling, squealing, shrieking, yelping, yowling, moaning, roaring, baying, caterwauling, whining, squalling, whimpering, keening, ululating, growling, groaning, croaking, lamenting, wauling, crying loudly, hollering, squawking, yawping, grumbling, bleating, griping, whingeing, screeching, muttering, carping, complaining, grouching, murmuring, grousing, inveighing, beefing, nagging, bellyaching, yammering, grizzling, fussing, repining, shouting, grumping, maundering, kvetching … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The wailing wind echoed through the empty streets, a haunting reminder of the town's sorrowful past.”
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