woefuladjective
uk/ˈwəʊ.fəl/us/ˈwoʊ.fəl/woeful adjective (BAD)
very bad or (of something very bad or unpleasant) very large or extreme:
The team's woeful record consists of six defeats in seven games.
They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- corrosive
- grim
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- noxious
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- stinking
- wretched
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woeful adjective (SAD)
formal extremely sad:
She was looking very woeful, with her eyes red and swollen.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- wretched
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