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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈwəʊfəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-woeful.wav Forms: woefuller [comparative], woefullest [superlative], woful [alternative, obsolete], wofull [alternative, obsolete]
Rhymes: -əʊfəl Etymology: From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe + -ful. Compare Old English wālīċ (“woeful”), Old English tēonful (“woeful”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|woful}} Middle English woful, {{suf|en|woe|ful|pos=adjective}} woe + -ful, {{noncog|ang|wālīċ|t=woeful}} Old English wālīċ (“woeful”), {{noncog|ang|tēonful|t=woeful}} Old English tēonful (“woeful”) Head templates: {{en-adj|woefuller}} woeful (comparative woefuller, superlative woefullest)
  1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
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  2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
    Sense id: en-woeful-en-adj-v3pVAVcS Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Emotions Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 24 18 29 29 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 17 25 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 16 29 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 17 30 27 Disambiguation of Emotions: 18 13 31 37 Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, apocalyptic, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deadly, debacular, destructive, devastating, disadventurous [obsolete], disastrous, eradicative, extirpative, fatal, harmful, lethal, pernicious, ruinous, woeful
  3. Lamentable, deplorable.
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  4. Wretched; paltry; poor.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: woefully, woefulness

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "ipa": "/ˈwəʊfəl/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-woeful.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-woeful.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-woeful.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bd/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-woeful.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-woeful.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊfəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "woeful"
}

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