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# woeful

«woeful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Full of sorrow or sadness** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more woeful, most woeful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Full of sorrow or sadness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#m1)

2) Very bad or poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In tales it describes a sad fate or punishment, or a poor showing.

### examples

- Her woeful punishment was hard to bear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#x1)
- The dog gave a woeful howl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#x2)
- The team played woeful football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woeful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.