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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression;
- Example: "lamenting sinners"
- Example: "wailing mourners"
- Example: "the wailing wind"
- Example: "wailful bagpipes"
- Example: "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
[syn: lamenting, wailing, wailful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wailful \Wail"ful\, a.
   Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." --Spenser.
   "Wailful sonnets." --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wailful
    adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
           expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the
           wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires
           with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
           wailing, wailful]