woful
Adjective
Meaning
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
touching
sad
miserable
melancholy
bleak
gloomy
somber
melancholic
abject
pitiful
despicable
sorrowful
mournful
doleful
pitiable
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O happy dames! that may embrace The fruit of your delight; Help to bewail the woful case, And eke the heavy plight Of me, that wonted to rejoice The fortune of my pleasant choice: Good ladies! help to fill my mourning voice.