WOFUL, a. 1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted.How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace!2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful day. Jeremiah 17.3. Bringing calamity, distress or affliction; as a woful event; woful want.4. Wretched; paltry.What woful stuff this madrigal would be.
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