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woeful adjective [ ˈwəʊfʊl ]

• characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery.
• "her face was woeful"
Similar: sad, unhappy, miserable, woebegone, doleful, forlorn, crestfallen, glum, gloomy, dejected, downcast, disconsolate, downhearted, despondent, depressed, despairing, dismal, melancholy, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, grief-stricken, blue, down in the mouth, down in the dumps, tragic, saddening, sorrowful, cheerless, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pathetic, pitiable, grievous, traumatic, upsetting, depressing, distressing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tear-jerking, agonizing, harrowing, distressful,
Opposite: happy, cheerful, uplifting,
• very bad; deplorable.
• "the remark was enough to establish his woeful ignorance about the theatre"
Similar: dreadful, very bad, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, hopeless, lamentable, laughable, substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, rotten, appalling, crummy, pathetic, pitiful, useless, lousy, shocking, abysmal, dire, the pits, duff, chronic, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, poxy, chickenshit,
Opposite: excellent,


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