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Wailful

//ˈweɪlfəl// adj

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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

Etymology

From wail + -ful.

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