woful

• HYPHEN: wo=ful

CIDE DICTIONARY

woful, a. 

•  Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.  [1913 Webster]

  "How many woeful widows left to bow
  To sad disgrace!"  [1913 Webster]
•  Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want.  [1913 Webster]

  "O woeful day! O day of woe!"  [1913 Webster]
•  Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.  [1913 Webster]

  "What woeful stuff this madrigal would be!"  [1913 Webster]