Thesaurus
woeful
Synonyms and Antonyms of woeful
- the woeful expressions of the players after the humiliating loss
elegiac (also elegiacal), melancholy
dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, tearful
brokenhearted, careworn, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegone
bawling, crying, groaning, howling, keening, moaning, yammering
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray (also grey), joyless, low, miserable, moody, morbid, morose, pathetic, pessimistic, piteous, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphant
bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery
blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful
encouraging, hopeful, optimistic
ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
- I never saw a more woeful-looking bunch than those campers sitting there in the drenching rain.
bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, wretched
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, upset, worried
disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited
dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful
agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
- The restaurant patron made the woeful discovery that he had left his wallet at home.
affecting, doleful, moving, piteous, poignant, ruthful, touching
awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, severe, terrible
alarming, disturbing, perturbing, traumatic, unsettling
crushing, excruciating, harrowing, horrible, horrifying, intolerable, overwhelming, shocking, sickening, unbearable
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