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wailful

/weyl-fuhl/US // ˈweɪl fəl //

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 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.