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# woeful

adjective (more woeful, most woeful)

«woeful» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Full of sorrow or sadness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#m1)
2. Very bad or poor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#x1)
- The dog gave a woeful howl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#x2)
- The team played woeful football. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means a day of disaster and calamity. The prophet says he did not wish for it to come upon his people.

**Interpretation.** Jeremiah insists he was a faithful messenger who only spoke the words God gave him, even when they foretold doom.

### Examples

- As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after Thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; Thou knowest it; that which came out of my lips was manifest before Thee. (Prophets JER.17.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «woeful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woeful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«woeful» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/woeful.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «woeful» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/W/woeful/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«woeful» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/woeful.html) on Mova free.