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wailful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wailful has 1 sense
- wailful(s = adj.all) lamenting, wailing - vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"
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