Woeful /(?)/

Woe·ful

Woeful

a.
  1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
    How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!
  2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.
    O woeful day! O day of woe!
    — Philips.
  3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
    What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!