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What is the adjective for woeful?

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woeful
  1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
  2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
  3. wretched; paltry; poor
  4. Synonyms:
      5. tragic, miserable, sad, gloomy, distressing, grievous, heartbreaking, unhappy, wretched, pitiful, dismal, sorrowful, harrowing, cheerless, depressing, distressful, heart-rending, saddening, traumatic, upsetting, dire, doleful, heartrending, lamentable, regrettable, tear-jerking, tragical, unfortunate, unlucky, agonising, agonizing, piteous, calamitous, catastrophic, cruel, disappointing, disastrous, grim, unpleasant, dreadful, awful, deplorable, terrible, appalling, bad, sorry, painful, disturbing, pathetic, bitter … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Then the messengers dispersed to tell some families the woeful news of a son or a husband or a father taken.”
      “A recent examination of these records suggests there was an alarming and woeful lack of attention to detail in the planning of this operation.”
      “She has been feeling woeful after her lover's death in battle.”
woebegone
  1. In a deplorable state.
  2. Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. sad, dejected, miserable, depressed, unhappy, despondent, disconsolate, downcast, gloomy, melancholy, down, sorrowful, mournful, forlorn, glum, downhearted, doleful, blue, crestfallen, heartbroken, woeful, wretched, low, melancholic, joyless, inconsolable, desolate, saddened, dispirited, dismal, heartsick, sorry, brokenhearted, heavyhearted, heartsore, cheerless, dolorous, droopy, hangdog, despairing, distressed, bad, anguished, lugubrious, bleak, funereal, tearful, dreary, troubled, grim … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Adding to Penguin's woebegone mental state, the guards and inmates have been continuously teasing him about his tattoo.”
      “The derelict house stood woebegone, its cracked windows and crumbling facade revealing years of neglect and abandonment.”
      “The no-more-bowing decision was credited to His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, an amiable, faintly woebegone chap who is a cousin of the queen.”
woesome
  1. Characterised or marked by woe; woeful
  2. Examples:
      3. “In yon sea-chest be the lawful shares of all the woesome lads he marooned this day.”
      “The heaving of the great pans, like battering-rams against the sides of the Neptune, made a woesome noise below decks.”
      “But here comes woesome old me and my maw down the yard with battered suitcases arriving almost like phantoms dripping from the sea.”
woe
  1. (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
woeless
  1. (chiefly poetic) Devoid of woe.
woefuller
  1. comparative form of woeful: more woeful
  2. Synonyms:
      3. miserabler, sadder, gloomier, unhappier, wretcheder, pitifuller, direr, dolefuler, unluckier, crueler, grimmer, unpleasanter, more tragic, more distressing, more grievous, more heartbreaking, more dismal, more sorrowful, more harrowing, more cheerless, more depressing, more distressful, more saddening, more traumatic, more upsetting, more heartrending, more lamentable, more regrettable, more tragical, more unfortunate, more agonizing, more piteous, more calamitous, more catastrophic, more disappointing, more disastrous, more dreadful, awfuller, more deplorable, terribler, more appalling, sorrier, badder, painfuller, more pathetic, more disturbing, bitterer, poorer, horribler, more troublesome … more
woefullest
  1. superlative form of woeful: most woeful
  2. Synonyms:
      3. miserablest, saddest, gloomiest, unhappiest, wretchedest, pitifullest, direst, dolefulest, unluckiest, cruelest, grimmest, unpleasantest, most tragic, most distressing, most grievous, most heartbreaking, most dismal, most sorrowful, most harrowing, most cheerless, most depressing, most distressful, most heart-rending, most saddening, most traumatic, most upsetting, most heartrending, most lamentable, most regrettable, most tragical, most unfortunate, most agonizing, most piteous, most calamitous, most catastrophic, most disappointing, most disastrous, most dreadful, awfullest, most deplorable, terriblest, most appalling, sorriest, baddest, painfullest, most pathetic, most disturbing, bitterest, poorest, horriblest … more
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