woful

English

Etymology

wo +‎ -ful

Adjective

woful (comparative more woful, superlative most woful)

  1. Obsolete spelling of woeful
    • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
      Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched / With a woful agony, / Which forced me to begin my tale; / And then it left me free.
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