English-Thai Dictionary

woeful

ADJ เต็มไปด้วย ความ โศกเศร้า  เสียใจ  ทุกข์ใจ  ระทม  mournful sad sorrowful grievous happy joyful tem-pai-duai-kwam-sao-sok

 

woeful

ADJ เลวร้าย มาก  ร้ายแรง มาก  deplorable terrible leo-rai-mak

 

woefully

ADV เต็มไปด้วย ความ โศกเศร้า  sorely grievously tem-pai-duai-kwam-sao-sok

 

woefully

ADV เลวร้าย มาก  ร้ายแรง มาก  deplorably terribly leo-rai-mak

 

woefulness

N ความ โศกเศร้า  depression kwam-sao-sok

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WOEFUL; WOFUL

WOEFUL; WOFUL Woe "ful, Wo "ful, 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! Daniel.

 

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! Pope.

 

WOEFULLY; WOFULLY

WOEFULLY; WOFULLY Woe "ful *ly, Wo "ful *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

 

WOEFULNESS; WOFULNESS

WOEFULNESS; WOFULNESS Woe "ful *ness, Wo "ful *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

woeful

woe ful |ˈwōfəl ˈwoʊfəl | ▶adjective characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery: her face was woeful. • very bad; deplorable: the remark was enough to establish his woeful ignorance about the theater. DERIVATIVES woe ful ly adverb [ as submodifier ] : the police response was woefully inadequate, woe ful ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

woeful

woe ¦ful |ˈwəʊfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective 1 characterized by, expressive of, or causing sorrow or misery: her face was woeful. 2 very bad; deplorable: the remark was enough to establish his woeful ignorance about the theatre. DERIVATIVES woefully adverb [ as submodifier ] : the police response was woefully inadequate, woefulness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

woeful

woeful adjective 1 her face was woeful. See woebegone. 2 a woeful ballad: tragic, sad, miserable, cheerless, gloomy, sorry, pitiful, pathetic, traumatic, depressing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tear-jerking, gut-wrenching. ANTONYMS cheerful, uplifting. 3 the team's woeful performance: lamentable, awful, terrible, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, hopeless, dreadful; substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory; informal rotten, appalling, crummy, pathetic, pitiful, lousy, abysmal, dire, crappy, lame, brutal. ANTONYMS excellent.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

woeful

woeful adjective 1 her face was woeful: sad, unhappy, miserable, woebegone, doleful, forlorn, crestfallen, glum, gloomy, dejected, downcast, disconsolate, downhearted, despondent, depressed, despairing, dismal, melancholy, broken-hearted, heartbroken, inconsolable, grief-stricken; informal blue, down in the mouth, down in the dumps. ANTONYMS happy, cheerful. 2 a woeful tale of broken romance: tragic, sad, saddening, unhappy, sorrowful, miserable, cheerless, wretched, sorry, pitiful, pathetic, pitiable, gloomy, grievous, traumatic, upsetting, depressing, distressing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tear-jerking, agonizing, harrowing; rare distressful. ANTONYMS uplifting, cheerful. 3 the team's woeful midweek performance: dreadful, very bad, awful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, hopeless, lamentable, laughable, substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory; informal rotten, appalling, crummy, pathetic, pitiful, useless, lousy, shocking, abysmal, dire, the pits; Brit. informal duff, chronic, rubbish, pants, a load of pants, poxy; N. Amer. vulgar slang chickenshit. ANTONYMS excellent.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

woeful

woe ful /wóʊf (ə )l /形容詞 ｟文 ｠1 悲しい, 悲しそうな ▸ a woeful countenance 悲しそうな顔つき .2 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗悲しむべき, 悲惨な ; 哀れな, 情けない .～ly 副詞 悲しげに ; 痛ましく ; ひどく 〈不十分な 〉.～ness 名詞 U 悲痛, 悲惨 .