wailful

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈweɪlfəl/(UK)

Definition of wailful

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (poetic)Sorrowful; mournful.
    “Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]”
    “You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.”

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Etymology

From wail + -ful.

Anagrams of wailful

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