English
Etymology
wo + -ful
Adjective
woful (comparative more woful, superlative most woful)
- Obsolete spelling of woeful.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched / With a woful agony, / Which forced me to begin my tale; / And then it left me free.
