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- Dictionarywoefully/ˈwəʊfʊli/
adverb
- 1. in a manner expressing sorrow or misery: "she sighed woefully and walked out"
- 2. very badly; deplorably: "they performed woefully to lose 2–0"
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(of a bad situation) extremely; very: Medical resources were woefully inadequate during the emergency.
1. : full of woe : grievous. woeful prophecies. 2. : involving or bringing woe. 3. : lamentably bad or serious : deplorable. woeful ignorance. woefully. ˈwō-f (ə-)lē. adverb. woefulness. ˈwō-fəl-nəs. noun. Synonyms. aching. agonized. anguished. bemoaning. bewailing. bitter. deploring. doleful. dolesome. dolorous. funeral. grieving.
(of a bad situation) extremely; very: Medical resources were woefully inadequate during the emergency.
Woefully definition: in a sad or miserable way. See examples of WOEFULLY used in a sentence.
When you do something in a way that expresses how very sad or mournful you feel, you do it woefully. You can also use this adverb for things that are done really badly, like your woefully sloppy cake decorations.
(literary or formal) in a very sad way. ‘I’ll never see him again,’ she sighed woefully. Check pronunciation: woefully. Definition of woefully adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
adverb. in a sad or miserable way: More often than I care to remember, I’ve been stumped for suitable small talk and have ended up staring woefully into my drink. to a particularly regrettable or unfortunate degree:
1. Affected by or full of woe; mournful: feeling woeful. 2. Causing, involving, or expressing woe: a woeful situation; woeful eyes. 3. Deplorably bad: woeful errors in judgment. woe′ful·ly adv. woe′ful·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
WOEFUL definition: 1. very bad or (of something very bad or unpleasant) very large or extreme: 2. extremely sad: 3…. Learn more.
1. adjective. If someone or something is woeful, they are very sad. ...a woeful ballad. woefully adverb [ADVERB with verb] He said woefully: 'I love my country, but it does not give a damn about me.' 2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You can use woeful to emphasize that something is very bad or undesirable. [emphasis]
