WordNet 3.0
Adjective (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”Synonyms: lamentingwailing
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Wailful \Wail"ful\, a. Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." --Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." --Shak. [1913 Webster]