What does wailful mean?
Wailful means (chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful..
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/ˈweɪlfəl/ · adjective
(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful..
Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]
You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.
Use wailful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wailful means (chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful..
Common synonyms include sorrowful, wailing, lamenting.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]
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