woefully
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American soundwoefully
woefully
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woe - ful - ly -> woefully
Myanmar meaning
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၁။ ဝမ်းနည်းပူဆွေးနေသော။ ရင်ကွဲ ပက်လက်ဖြစ်နေသော။ a woeful cry/ look/ sight.
၂။ ဆိုးရွားသော။ စိတ်ပျက်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။ display woeful ignorance. woefully /-fǝli/ adv : The preparations were woefully inadequate.
More examples
- ‘Coinciding with this woeful happening, a howling wind blew dreadfully.’
- ‘Talked to Sherri this time and relayed my woeful tale.’
- ‘His face was grotesque, but only to the extent that the embossed lines in several shades of ice depicted some terribly misshapen and woeful beast.’
- ‘He used to draw woeful crowds, especially to the Square above.’
- ‘He sounded so woeful, his expression so longing, that I had felt sympathy for him.’
- ‘He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face, her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.’
- ‘He turns to Cymry and widens his eyes, giving her such a droll, woeful and aghast look all in one that she starts laughing anew.’
- ‘But for manufacturers to use their idling workforce to their own ends reminds us of the beggar's use of the woeful dog he has just kicked.’
- ‘I said, giving him a woeful look behind my entirely smeared mascara.’
- ‘He was a woeful man altogether, letters here, there and everywhere and it would have been a fair auld job to write one of his usually long letters.’
- ‘Yes, there has been woeful carnage and suffering aplenty.’
- ‘Owen Hughes says Tuesday night was a pathetic and woeful effort which he was extremely embarrassed and angry about.’
- ‘His main challenge will be to draw down sufficient funds to bring about a dramatic change to the woeful state of the country's infrastructure.’
- ‘The initial baking was fine, but my decoration was woeful.’
- ‘The answers lie in stiff competition in their domestic markets, in woeful mismanagement, even the collapse of some businesses.’
- ‘With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls, abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered.’
- ‘I was later to learn that my track positioning was woeful as I was pointing the kart out of corners instead of vice-versa - or was it the other way round?’
- ‘The committee concluded that the paper trail on this whole sorry transaction was woeful.’
- ‘What's really repellent about the editorial, though, isn't just the woeful inaccuracies.’
- ‘His positioning is woeful, as is his decision-making.’
Synonyms
unhappy, doleful, sad, sorrowful, mournful, afflicted, agonized, anguished, appalling, awful, bad, calamitous, catastrophic, cruel, deplorable, depressing, disappointing, disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, dreadful, feeble, gloomy, grieving, grievous, grim, harrowing, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy, mean, miserable, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poor, racked, regrettable, rotten, shocking, sorry, terrible, tortured, tragic, traumatic, unfortunate, unpleasant, upsetting, wretched
Antonyms
blessed, cheerful, comforting, encouraging, excellent, fortunate, glad, good, happy, hopeful, joyful, lucky, nice, pleasing, rich, satisfactory, wealthy, wonderful, worthwhile
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