Wilful vs Woeful - What's the difference?
wilful | woeful |
intentional; deliberate
stubborn and determined
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
wretched; paltry; poor
As adjectives the difference between wilful and woeful
is that wilful is intentional; deliberate while woeful is full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.wilful
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Alternative forms
*willful (US)Adjective
Synonyms
* voluntarywoeful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — Daniel.
- a woeful event
- a woeful lack of restraint
- What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! — Pope.