variants
or less commonly woful
1
: full of woe : grievous
woeful prophecies
2
: involving or bringing woe
3
: lamentably bad or serious : deplorable
woeful ignorance
Examples of woeful in a Sentence
The puppy had woeful eyes.
The student's grades were woeful.
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The Celtics shot a woeful 3-for-16 in the third quarter but were within a basket entering the fourth, trailing 73-70.
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Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
During a woeful three-inning outing, the 26-year-old gave up six runs to the middling Colorado Rockies.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
But there’s nothing like a series against the woeful Rockies to put things right and the Dodgers beat them for the second consecutive night Tuesday, 6-2.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2025
In our woeful orthography, choir, and liar rhyme, daughter and laughter don’t, and knickknack has four—count them, four—entirely useless K’s.
—Gabe Henry, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
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Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
During a woeful three-inning outing, the 26-year-old gave up six runs to the middling Colorado Rockies.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
But there’s nothing like a series against the woeful Rockies to put things right and the Dodgers beat them for the second consecutive night Tuesday, 6-2.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2025
In our woeful orthography, choir, and liar rhyme, daughter and laughter don’t, and knickknack has four—count them, four—entirely useless K’s.
—Gabe Henry, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Woeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woeful. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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