Wailful

//ˈweɪlfəl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Sorrowful; mournful. poetic

    "Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression wordnet

Synonyms

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complainingfaultfindingfretfulhowlinglamentinglamenting

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""O queen, a tale too true, / too sad for words, thou biddest me repeat; / how Ilion perished, and the Danaan crew / her power and all her wailful realm o'erthrew: / the woes I saw, thrice piteous to behold, / and largely shared.""

Etymology

From wail + -ful.

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