Woeful
adjective
Very sad or terrible.
He turned to look at the woeful pile of discarded drafts.
adjective
Causing sorrow or misery.
The woeful state of the economy is causing a lot of uncertainty.
adjective
Very bad or inadequate.
She lamented her woeful ignorance of the subject.
adjective
Very sad or terrible.
He turned to look at the woeful pile of discarded drafts.
adjective
Causing sorrow or misery.
The woeful state of the economy is causing a lot of uncertainty.
adjective
Very bad or inadequate.
She lamented her woeful ignorance of the subject.
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Pro Tip 1/3Profound Gloom
Use 'woeful' to describe deep sadness as if it's consuming a person or thing.
Her eyes were woeful, reflecting a loss that words couldn't express.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond Repair
Apply 'woeful' when something can't be fixed, emphasizing the extent of its bad state.
The company's finances are in a woeful condition beyond salvaging.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Emotion
'Woeful' evokes powerful feelings, suitable in situations that are emotionally charged.
His woeful plea for forgiveness moved everyone in the room.
Compare with
deplorabledisheartendistresslamentablemiserablepatheticpitifulsorrowfulunhappy
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During the course of these decades where these kits sat in that warehouse, we discovered there had been multiple changes of police leadership, with different priorities and different agendas. There was woefully inadequate training for sex crimes officers in the police department in general.
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Or you could pay eight times the going rate for something called a lightning call. But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through. In fact, so woeful was our telephone service
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But with this love comes heartache. Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish. Spearfishing took out the large species, midnight blue and rainbow parrotfish are now exceedingly rare,
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"All the World's a...
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation
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was unique much of the city lies below sea level and despite years of warning the city was woefully unprepared to handle a breach of the levees which kept it dry but we are still vulnerable
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connected to their sources, so that people and algorithms can better judge what is credible. And educators around the world are testing different techniques for finding ways to make people critical of the content they consume. All of these efforts are wonderful, but they're working in silos, and many of them are woefully underfunded.
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How humans could evolve...
and that our Sun's life is also finite. While Mars and all the movies made in its name have reinvigorated the ethos for space travel, few of us seem to truly realize that our species' fragile constitution is woefully unprepared for long duration journeys into space. Let us take a trek to your local national forest
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What happened when we...
During the course of these decades where these kits sat in that warehouse, we discovered there had been multiple changes of police leadership, with different priorities and different agendas. There was woefully inadequate training for sex crimes officers in the police department in general.
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Is there a reproducibilit...
The publish or perish mindset can also compromise academic journals' traditional peer-review processes which are safety checks where experts examine submitted papers for potential shortcomings. The current system, which might involve only one or two reviewers, can be woefully ineffective.
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Why nations should...
Or you could pay eight times the going rate for something called a lightning call. But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through. In fact, so woeful was our telephone service
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A coral reef love story...
But with this love comes heartache. Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish. Spearfishing took out the large species, midnight blue and rainbow parrotfish are now exceedingly rare,
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The transformative power...
the physical immersion, the front end of games. But behind the scenes, the actual experiential reality of a game world has remained woefully limited. I'll put that in perspective for a moment. I could leave this theater right now,
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"All the World's a...
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation
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Developing vaccines for common infections, meanwhile, can help prevent disease in the first place. The biggest challenge to all these approaches is funding, which is woefully inadequate across the globe.
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We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
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I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.
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There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.
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South African Playwright
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
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Bing Crosby
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My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
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British Politician
A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.
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Lauren Groff
American Novelist
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John McCain
American Politician
We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven't found the will to work together to adjust them.
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D. H. Lawrence
English Writer
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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Gerald F. Lieberman
American Writer
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
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Kirsten Gillibrand
American Politician
I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.
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Geena Davis
American Actress
There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.
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Damon Galgut
South African Playwright
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
Over my lifetime, heavy usage has woefully eroded profanity's power.
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Bing Crosby
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My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
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