Definition of WOEFUL

woeful

Meanings

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.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English woful, waful, equivalent to woe + -ful. Compare Old English wālīċ (“woeful”), Old English tēonful (“woeful”).

Synonyms

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, deplorable, 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, execrable, 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, miserable, 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, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wretched

Scrabble Score: 12

woeful is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
woeful is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
woeful is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

woeful is a valid Words With Friends word