woeful

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
    — How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!
  2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
    — a woeful event
  3. Lamentable, deplorable.
    — Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
  4. Wretched; paltry; poor.
    — What woful stuff this madrigal would be / In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me!

词形变化

woefuller comparative woefullest superlative woful alternative,obsolete wofull alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
woefully woefulness

词源

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