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 →

2) Very bad or poor. tree →

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 →
• The dog gave a woeful howl. tree →
• The team played woeful football. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «woeful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.