Wailful

/ˈweɪlfəl/

Synonyms for "wailful" (25 found)

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More general

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dramatic expressionemotional expressionemotional stateemotive qualityliterary dictionpoetic register

More specific

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cry of griefepic lamentlyrical wailmelodramatic outbursttheatrical lamentwailing

Collocations

5 entries
wailful choruswailful crywailful lamentwailful sobbingwailful utterance

Inflections

2 entries
more wailfulmost wailful

Derivations

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similar

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Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

"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."

Source: tatoeba (6804459)

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

Source: wiktionary

You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.

Source: wiktionary

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