wailful

Adjective
Synonyms: lamentingwailing

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  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
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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