English Dictionary

woeful

/ˈwəʊfəl/

adj

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

She had a woeful expression on her face.

意味（1）

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.

How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!

意味（2）

Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.

a woeful event

意味（3）

Lamentable, deplorable.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:

This wide and universal theatre

Presents more woeful pageants than the scene

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

意味（4）

Wretched; paltry; poor.

What woful stuff this madrigal would be / In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me!