wailful

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wailful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wailful \Wail"ful\, a.
     Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." --Spenser.
     "Wailful sonnets." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

wailful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wailful
      adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
             expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the
             wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires
             with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
             wailing, wailful]