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wailefull

wailefull is the obsolete spelling of wailful.

Meaning of wailful

Adjective

wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)

  1. (poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
    • Farre better I it deeme to die with speed / Then waste in woe and waylfull miserye […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of wailefull

comparativemore wailefull
superlativemost wailefull

Questions about wailefull

What is wailefull the obsolete spelling of?
Wailefull is the obsolete spelling of wailful.

Words near wailefull in the dictionary

  1. Wailakis
  2. waile
  3. Wailea
  4. wailed
  5. wailed on
  6. wailefull
  7. wailer
  8. waileress
  9. waileresses
  10. wailers
  11. wailes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wailefull (page history and authors); wailful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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