woful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched / With a woful agony, / Which forced me to begin my tale; / And then it left me free."
- "Still less has it the dreary moan, the cry as of one in pain, which is borne on a November blast; but it has a music of its own—sad, low, and plaintive, like the last echoes of a forsaken lute—a voice of weeping, but tender and subdued, like the pleasant tears shed over some woful romance of the olden time, telling some mournful chance of the young knight falling in his first battle, or of a maiden pale and perishing with ill-requited love."
- "This put the doctor in a passion, and quitting his spoon he took the pudding up in handfuls, and threw it at his man; who battled with him again in the same manner, till they were both in a woful pickle."
Etymology
From wo + -ful.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: wo
Usage
Inflected Forms
more woful (comparative)
most woful (superlative)