woesome
/ˈwəʊsəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by woe; woeful
Example Sentences
- "'But it will make thee much bewail, / And it will make thy fair eye swell—' / She said, and told the woesome tale, / As sooth as shepherdess might tell."
- "I could not help seeing a woesome picture. “Poor little soul, with the blood pouring from her heart and her brown hair spread over her dead father's breast!”"
- "Nicole caught her breath at the muffled, woesome sighs: Douanier-Lieutenant Peder LaMotte, Acting Capitaine of Concarneau, her love and her father's nemesis, was weeping."
- "To dissect my thoughts is a woesome tale [...]"
- "But here comes woesome old me and my maw down the yard with battered suitcases arriving almost like phantoms dripping from the sea."
Etymology
From woe + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more woesome (comparative)
most woesome (superlative)