adj. 25B6; adjective
her face was woeful. : See woebegone .
a woeful tale : TRAGIC, sad, miserable, cheerless, gloomy, sorry, pitiful, pathetic, traumatic, depressing, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tear-jerking.
the team's woeful performance : DREADFUL, awful, terrible, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, shameful, hopeless, lamentable; substandard, poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory; informal rotten, appalling, crummy, pathetic, pitiful, lousy, abysmal, dire; Brit. informal duff, chronic, rubbish.
cheerful, excellent.