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Wailful

Wailful \Wail"ful\, a. Sorrowful; mournful. `` Like wailful widows.''
--Spenser. ``Wailful sonnets.''
--Shak.

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wailful

a. (context chiefly poetic English) sorrowful; mournful.

WordNet
wailful

adj. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting, wailing]

Usage examples of "wailful".

Zoyd described his inner feelings to Frenesi, having located her finally at the gigantic Dark Ocean Hotel, a towering dihedral wailful of 2,048 rooms with identical lanais cantilevered into blue space, all facing the Pacific.

More frightening, alien terms such as leukodystrophy and DNA mutation and myelin sheath were mentioned to the parents during this tensely wailful period.