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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wofuladjective

    Etymology: wo and full

    The woful Gynecia, to whom rest was no ease, had left her lothed lodging, and gotten herself into the solitary places those desarts were full of. Philip Sidney.

    How many woful widows left to bow
    To sad disgrace! Samuel Daniel, Civil War.

    In a tow’r, and never to be loos’d,
    The woful captive kinsmen are inclos’d. Dryden.

    What woful stuff this madrigal would be,
    In some starv’d hackney-sonneteer, or me?
    But let a lord once own the happy lines,
    How the wit brightens! how the style refines! Alexander Pope.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wofuladjective

    full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad

  2. Wofuladjective

    bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful event; woeful want

  3. Wofuladjective

    wretched; paltry; miserable; poor

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of woful in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of woful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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