| a. | 1. | Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. |
| 2. | Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; | |
| 3. | Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor. |
| Adj. | 1. | woeful - affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier Synonyms: woebegone |
| 2. | woeful - of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" |