wailful
/weyl-fuhl/US // ˈweɪl fəl //
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : mournful; plaintive.
Examples
He suggested that the poems, if the few lines he had seen made a fair sample, were rather of the wailful order.
The battle was ending without even the poor pomp and circumstance of torn banners and wailful music.
You must lay lime to tangle her desires By wailful sonnets whose composèd rimep.
Clouds were gathering overhead, and a wailful wind made one moaning sweep through the trees behind us in the hollow.
Then over their tops passed a wailful gust of wind, through which we thought came the fall of receding footsteps.
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