Noah Webster
Woful
WOFUL, adjective
1. Sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted.
How many woful widows left to bow to sad disgrace!
2. Sorrowful; mournful; full of distress; as woful day. Jeremiah 17:1.
3. Bringing calamity, distress or affliction; as a woful event; woful want.
4. Wretched; paltry.
What woful stuff this madrigal would be.