woeful

Adjective Satellite

• affected by or full of grief or woe; - George du Maurier
• of very poor quality or condition
  • "woeful treatment of the accused"
  • "woeful errors of judgment"

Adj

• Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
• Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
• Lamentable, deplorable.
• Wretched; paltry; poor.

Adjective

• Full of or expressing sorrow; deplorable.

Examples

• a woeful event
• a woeful lack of restraint
• His WOEFUL tile rack gave him little hope for a high score in Scrabble.

Synonyms

deplorable, execrable, miserable, woebegone, wretched, abject, apocalyptic, ass, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bad, base, beggarly, below par, blameworthy, blitheless, blue, broken, bum, bummed out, calamitous, carrion, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chapfallen, cheap, cheerless, chintzy, chopfallen, contemptible, crapperific, crappo, crappy, craptabulous, craptacular, craptastic, crestfallen, cringing, crummy, cut up, damp, deadly, debacular, dedecorous, degraded, dejected, depressed, depressing, deridable, derisible, despicable, despisable, despondent, destructive, devastating, dirty, disadventurous, disastrous, disconsolate, discreditable, disdainable, disgraceful, disgruntled, disheartened, dishonorable, dismal, disreputable, distressing, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, eradicative, extirpative, fatal, flimsy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, groveling, harmful, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, ignoble, ignominious, inconsolable, infelicitous, inferior, inglorious, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymable, lachrymose, lame, lamentable, lamentful, laughable, lethal, loathsome, lousy, low, low-grade, low-spirited, ludicrous, lugubrious, lumpish, mean, mean-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, obscene, outrageous, paltry, passionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pernicious, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, plaintive, plebeian, poor, putrid, querulous, regrettable, reprehensible, reptile, reptilian, reptitious, ridiculous, rinky-dink, risible, roynish, rubbish, rueful, ruinous, sad, saddened, saddening, saturnine, scald, schlocky, scornworthy, scummy, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattered, shitty, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, slight, slim, slimy, solemn, sombre, sordid, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, sorry, spiritless, subpar, substandard, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, tin-pot, tragic, trashy, triste, tristful, ugly, unacceptable, uncheerful, uncheery, uncommendable, unconsolable, uncool, unfit, unhappy, unlively, unmentionable, unsatisfactory, unsophisticated, unsound, unsuitable, unwashed, unworthy, upsetting, vile, vulgar, weak, wistful, woe, woeful, worthless

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