HyperDic: wailful

English > 1 sense of the word wailful:
ADJECTIVEallwailful, lamenting, wailingvocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
English > wailful: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningvocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression.
Examples
  • "wailful bagpipes"
  • "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
Synonymslamenting, wailing
BroadersorrowfulExperiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

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