wailful

Other forms: wailfully

Definitions of wailful
  1. adjective
    vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression
    “wailful bagpipes”
    “"tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare”
    synonyms: lamenting, wailing
    sorrowful
    experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
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