Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affected by or full of woe; mournful.
- adjective Causing, involving, or expressing woe.
- adjective Deplorably bad.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of woe; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; sorrowful.
- Relating or pertaining to woe; expressing woe; characterized by sorrow or woe; deplorable.
- Wretched; paltry; mean; pitiful.
- =Syn.2. Mournful, calamitous, disastrous, afflictive, miserable, grievous. See
woe .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
- adjective Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- adjective Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Full of
woe ;sorrowful ; distressed withgrief orcalamity . - adjective Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
- adjective
wretched ;paltry ;poor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affected by or full of grief or woe
- adjective of very poor quality or condition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Liverpool were again woeful as an injury-plagued Everton side secured their first derby win in four years through goals from Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta.
Liverpool display was best so far says Roy Hodgson despite Everton win Andy Hunter at Goodison Park 2010
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Drew Gooden left the Chicago Bulls and their losing record last month before spending a couple weeks in woeful Sacramento.
USATODAY.com 2008
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It was in woeful condition due and in danger of being lost, until the new owners decided to save it.
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It was in woeful condition due and in danger of being lost, until the new owners decided to save it.
October 2007 2007
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The Pacers were woeful from the floor in the opening minutes - missing 14 of their first 18 shots - but Dunleavy did plenty to make sure Miami didn't open an early lead.
USATODAY.com 2007
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Time sware my life should fare in woeful waste, ii.
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So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!”
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News: MS marketing for XBLC games "woeful" - Clover/Tank Strike devs scream change.
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News: MS marketing for XBLC games "woeful" - Clover/Tank Strike devs scream change.
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News: MS marketing for XBLC games "woeful" - Clover/Tank Strike devs scream change.
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