Usually means: Full of sorrow or misery.
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  1. woful: Merriam-Webster
  2. woful: Wordnik
  3. woful: Wiktionary
  4. woful: Dictionary.com
  5. Woful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Woful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. woful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. Woful: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. woful: FreeDictionary.org
  10. woful: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Obsolete spelling of woeful. [Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.]

Similar:
wofull, piteous, fatall, cruell, doleful, direful, mortall, griefe, vaine, distrest, more...

Opposite:
joyful, happy, elated, delighted

Types:
tragic, sad, pathetic, miserable, disastrous, more...

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Similar:
wofull, piteous, fatall, cruell, doleful, direful, mortall, griefe, vaine, distrest, more...

Opposite:
joyful, happy, elated, delighted

Types:
tragic, sad, pathetic, miserable, disastrous, more...



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