What is another word for woeful?
607 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ wˈə͡ʊfə͡l], [ wˈəʊfəl], [ w_ˈəʊ_f_əl]
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Similar words for woeful:
- adverse (adjective)
- aggrieved (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- bitter (adjective)
- calamitous (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- deplorable (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- disagreeable (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dolorous (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- hapless (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- melancholy (adjective)
- mournful (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- piteous (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- regrettable (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- tearful (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- execrable (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Woeful:
adj.
• adverse (adjective)- detrimental,
- opposing,
- hard,
- unfavorable,
- burdensome,
- distressful,
- unfortunate,
- perilous,
- unpropitious,
- unfriendly,
- difficult,
- miserable,
- unlucky,
- catastrophic,
- grievous,
- inauspicious,
- disastrous,
- untoward,
- adverse,
- troublesome,
- antipathetic.
- unhappy,
- de-pressed,
- more persecuted,
- pained,
- most wronged,
- most grieving,
- most saddened,
- un-happy,
- un happy,
- un happier,
- more wronged,
- un-happier,
- most persecuted,
- un-happiest,
- un happiest,
- more saddened,
- de pressed,
- more grieving.
- dis pleasing,
- dis-pleasing,
- in clement,
- galling,
- in-tense,
- in tenser,
- in-temperate,
- un-pleasant,
- un palatable,
- in-tenser,
- in tense,
- un pleasant,
- in-clement,
- un-palatable,
- in-tensest,
- in temperate,
- dis tasteful,
- dis-tasteful.
- sad,
- de solate,
- jarring,
- drab,
- in the dumps,
- draggier,
- un-comfortable,
- mopey,
- mopier,
- un comfortable,
- draggiest,
- somber,
- in dumps,
- most dejecting,
- more drearisome,
- more dejecting,
- de-solate,
- mopiest,
- most drearisome.
- dejected,
- moody,
- despairing,
- heartbroken,
- dispirited,
- disheartened,
- sullen,
- glum,
- contemplative,
- discouraged,
- overcome,
- downhearted,
- grim,
- anxious,
- blue,
- dreary,
- morose,
- gloomy,
- wistful,
- despondent,
- pensive,
- joyless,
- lachrymose,
- depressed.
- de pressing,
- de-pressing,
- re-doubtable,
- portentous,
- most scowling,
- re doubtable,
- most oppressing,
- more scowling,
- more oppressing.
- de-stroyed,
- more torn-up,
- most crushed,
- grief stricken,
- de stroyed,
- in-consolable,
- dis-tressed,
- most torn-up,
- tornup,
- most torn up,
- most tornup,
- more tornup,
- in pits,
- most hurting,
- more ripped,
- in consolable,
- more hurting,
- more crushed,
- more torn up,
- most ripped,
- dis tressed,
- hopeless.
- more dolesome,
- more dolorific,
- most heart-rending,
- heart rending,
- most dolorific,
- most heart rending,
- most dolesome,
- more heart-rending,
- more heart rending.
- down dumps,
- broodiest,
- more mopish,
- most chapfallen,
- more moping,
- most moping,
- most mopish,
- most dragged,
- most mirthless,
- down the dumps,
- broodier,
- more mirthless,
- more dragged,
- most crabbed,
- more chapfallen.
- jinxed,
- Star-crossed,
- snakebit,
- ill-starred,
- sad sack,
- jonah,
- hexed,
- voodooed,
- behind the eightball,
- loser,
- poor fish.
- cheerless,
- sinister,
- in mourning,
- heart-rending,
- dire,
- aggrieved,
- torn up,
- lowdown,
- in blue funk,
- Drearisome,
- Bummed,
- in sorrow,
- in pain,
- Dolesome,
- pathetic,
- pitiful,
- down in dumps,
- calamitous,
- sick at heart,
- sorrowful,
- in low spirits,
- griefstricken,
- Mopish,
- in the pits,
- beefing,
- plaintive,
- hapless,
- regrettable,
- god-awful,
- Dolorific,
- grousing,
- tragic,
- bitter,
- deplorable,
- draggy,
- low-down,
- mournful,
- mirthless,
- anguished,
- down and out,
- chapfallen,
- full of sorrow,
- down in the dumps,
- singing the blues,
- baleful,
- sombre,
- melancholy,
- saturnine,
- blackhearted,
- lamentable,
- distressing,
- torn-up,
- malefic,
- Commiserable,
- disconsolate,
- piteous,
- Doomful,
- low,
- dolorous,
- broody,
- disagreeable.
- arduous,
- inflaming,
- severe,
- excruciating,
- annoying,
- bothersome,
- uncomfortable,
- torturing,
- insufferable,
- Torturing.,
- anguishing,
- wrenching,
- withering,
- harrowing,
- hurtful,
- sore,
- grueling,
- stinging,
- Irksome,
- tormenting,
- Gnawing,
- trying,
- irritating,
- piercing,
- offensive,
- chafing,
- throbbing,
- aching,
- Besetting,
- unpleasant,
- unbearable,
- oppressive,
- biting,
- cruel,
- aggravating,
- acute,
- smarting,
- agonizing,
- stabbing,
- cutting,
- horrendous,
- Cramping,
- crushing,
- odious.
- more entreating,
- most entreating,
- more supplicating,
- more beseeching,
- most beseeching,
- most imploring,
- most supplicating,
- more imploring.
- more beefing,
- most beefing,
- most bellyaching,
- wailing,
- out sorts,
- most grousing,
- most wailing,
- more bellyaching,
- more grousing,
- more wailing.
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- hopelessly,
- utter,
- thorough,
- downright,
- unspeakable,
- utterly,
- such as it is,
- sadly.
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- doleful.
Other synonyms:
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- lugubrious.
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- rueful.
- crushed,
- fetid,
- villainous,
- teary,
- schlock,
- Wrung,
- moving,
- guilty,
- ugly,
- poor,
- misfortunate,
- shoddy,
- contrite,
- ominous,
- lost,
- shameful,
- grave,
- base,
- elegiac,
- penitent,
- Deteriorated,
- suffering,
- squalid,
- funeral,
- heavy-laden,
- gross,
- lamenting,
- desolate,
- feeble,
- monstrous,
- indifferent,
- heartrending,
- comfortless,
- enormous,
- forlorn,
- humbled,
- cut up,
- fulsome,
- below par,
- melancholic,
- nasty,
- Bewailing,
- nefarious,
- plangent,
- inconsolable,
- poignant,
- obnoxious,
- guilt-ridden,
- weeping,
- afflictive,
- inferior,
- in grief,
- reprehensible,
- sorrowing,
- sinking,
- solemn,
- Discomforting,
- down,
- ghastly,
- heart-struck,
- rank,
- egregious,
- careworn,
- disgusting,
- bleak,
- heartbreaking,
- low-spirited,
- shabby,
- heart-breaking,
- beastly,
- Broken-hearted,
- overwhelmed,
- brokenhearted,
- pitiable,
- Griefful,
- dismal,
- heartsore,
- infelicitous,
- foul,
- despicable,
- heinous,
- emotive,
- dark,
- stirring,
- depressive,
- disappointing,
- distressed,
- grief-stricken,
- desirous,
- Woful,
- slimy,
- sharp,
- contemptible,
- repentant,
- evil,
- heart-broken,
- appalling,
- stricken,
- heartsick,
- terrible,
- horrible,
- outrageous,
- inadequate,
- Ill-conditioned,
- tearful,
- noisome,
- wrong,
- sepulchral,
- Grieved,
- unclean,
- lowering,
- shocking,
- tortured,
- downcast,
- afflicted,
- filthy,
- agonized,
- shamed,
- grieving,
- tenebrific,
- saddening,
- impossible,
- suicidal,
- ashamed,
- blameworthy,
- troubled,
- conscience-stricken,
- upset,
- unsatisfactory,
- luckless,
- Pathetical,
- worst,
- disturbing,
- remorseful,
- imperfect,
- serious,
- loathsome,
- atrocious,
- Harrowed,
- dismaying,
- worthless,
- abject,
- humiliated,
- lousy,
- condemnable,
- bad,
- vile,
- horrid,
- brutal,
- Afflicting,
- ruthful,
- vicious,
- foetid,
- Doloroso,
- Deploring,
- devastated,
- regretful,
- sordid,
- upsetting,
- detestable,
- repulsive,
- emotional,
- abominable,
- infamous,
- injured,
- awful,
- heavyhearted,
- Sorrowed,
- tough,
- damnable,
- mortified,
- embarrassed,
- arrant,
- crestfallen,
- hateful,
- heart-stricken,
- in the doldrums,
- notorious,
- Saddened,
- flagrant,
- Racked,
- desperate,
- dreadful,
- sorry,
- rotten,
- disheartening,
- heavy-hearted,
- affective,
- mean,
- shamefaced,
- touching,
- paltry,
- pessimistic,
- apologetic,
- chap-fallen,
- troubling,
- disgraceful,
- affecting,
- too bad,
- yearning,
- rough,
- longing,
- unprecedented,
- beneath contempt,
- Shaming,
- depressing,
- wretched,
- black,
- droopy.
How to use "Woeful" in context?
Woeful: adjective
meant to express sorrow or disappointment; expressing or characterized by a feeling of great sadness or unhappiness.
Woeful stories often remind us of our own mortality. They haunt us with the reminder that, one day, we too will graduate and leave this earth. For some, woeful tales may be a sign that they should be more mindful and cherish the time they have remaining.
paintings by iwan dupree, where dark colors are juxtaposed against bright colors, often have a somber feel to them.
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Equivalence
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deplorable.
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Independent
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appalling, depressing, dire, disgraceful, dismal, pathetic, regrettable, wretched.
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distressing, lamentable, miserable, painful, pitiful, sad, sorrowful, unfortunate.
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