Woeful: alternatives and connections

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

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Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Alt. of Wofulness

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Alt. of Wofulness

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Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.

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Very unhappy; wretched.

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Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.