Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Woeful \Woe"ful\, Woful \Wo"ful\, a.
   1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity;
      afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.

            How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!
                                                  --Daniel.

   2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction; as, a woeful
      event; woeful want.

            O woeful day! O day of woe!           --Philips.

   3. Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

            What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! --Pope.