ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Woful

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Woful is an adjective meaning Obsolete spelling of woeful.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of woeful.

Example Sentences

Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched / With a woful agony, / Which forced me to begin my tale; / And then it left me free.
This put the doctor in a passion, and quitting his spoon he took the pudding up in handfuls, and threw it at his man; who battled with him again in the same manner, till they were both in a woful pickle.
Still less has it the dreary moan, the cry as of one in pain, which is borne on a November blast; but it has a music of its own—sad, low, and plaintive, like the last echoes of a forsaken lute—a voice of weeping, but tender and subdued, like the pleasant tears shed over some woful romance of the olden time, telling some mournful chance of the young knight falling in his first battle, or of a maiden pale and perishing with ill-requited love.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wofull, piteous, fatall, cruell, doleful, direful.

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