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.

Source : WordNet®

woeful
     adj 1: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him
            look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
            [syn: {woebegone}]
     2: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing
        conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the
        accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: {deplorable},
        {execrable}, {miserable}, {wretched}]