woefully
woefully adverb: in a woeful manner.
Adverb
woefully (comparative more woefully, superlative most woefully)
- In a woeful manner
- to cry woefully
- To an unfortunately great extent.
- woefully inadequate
- woefully incapable
woefully meaning in Urdu
woefully in Urdu
- بدحالی سے, مصیبت سے, افتادگی سے
Examples of woefully in a sentence
- The attempt at diversity fell woefully short of dispelling straight stereotypes of us.1979 December 29, Cindy Stein, “Queers in America's Living Rooms”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 10:
- In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
- For international services, London's High Speed 1 route to the Channel Tunnel remains woefully underused.2025 April 16, Philip Haigh, “Competition hots up on the Channel Tunnel route”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 50:
Forms of woefully
| comparative | more woefully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most woefully |
Origin of woefully
From Middle English wofully, equivalent to woeful + -ly.
Questions about woefully
- What does woefully mean?
- Woefully means in a woeful manner.
- What is woefully in Urdu?
- Woefully in Urdu is بدحالی سے, مصیبت سے, افتادگی سے. See Woefully meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use woefully in a sentence?
- The attempt at diversity fell woefully short of dispelling straight stereotypes of us.
- What part of speech is woefully?
- Woefully is an adverb.
Words near woefully in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: woefully (page history and authors); woefully (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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