wailful Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
    wailing; lamenting.
    • lamenting sinners
    • wailing mourners
    • the wailing wind
    • wailful bagpipes
    • tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare

WordNet


Wail"ful adjective
Definitions
  1. Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

Webster 1913