Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted. How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace!

Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful day. Jeremiah 17:16.

Bringing calamity, distress or affliction; as a woful event; woful want.

Wretched; paltry. What woful stuff this madrigal would be.