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Sorrowful; mournful.

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Definitions

  1. a. Sorrowful; mournful.
  2. adj. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
  3. Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
  4. Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailfulsonnets." Shak.
  5. s vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression