"wailful" meaning in English

See wailful in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈweɪlfəl/ [UK] Forms: more wailful [comparative], most wailful [superlative]
Etymology: From wail + -ful. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wail|ful|pos=adjective}} wail + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)
  1. (chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful. Tags: poetic

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wail",
        "3": "ful",
        "pos": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "wail + -ful",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wail + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wailful",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wailful",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English adjectives suffixed with -ful",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sorrowful; mournful."
      ],
      "id": "en-wailful-en-adj-xABuXeIF",
      "links": [
        [
          "Sorrowful",
          "sorrowful"
        ],
        [
          "mournful",
          "mournful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈweɪlfəl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wailful"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wail",
        "3": "ful",
        "pos": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "wail + -ful",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wail + -ful.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more wailful",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most wailful",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English adjectives suffixed with -ful",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English poetic terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
          "text": "You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sorrowful; mournful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Sorrowful",
          "sorrowful"
        ],
        [
          "mournful",
          "mournful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈweɪlfəl/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wailful"
}

Download raw JSONL data for wailful meaning in English (1.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.