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Wailful

Wailful Meaning & Definition
Wailful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wailful?

[adj] 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 | Synonyms for Wailful: lamenting | sorrowful | wailing

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Wailful In Webster's Dictionary

\Wail"ful\, a. Sorrowful; mournful. `` Like wailful widows.'' --Spenser. ``Wailful sonnets.'' --Shak.

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