woesome
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of woesome
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I could not help seeing a woesome picture.
From The White People by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Thou art allied to long-hair'd cherubim, And I a something undesired of these, With woesome lips and eyes for ever dim.
From A Lover's Litanies by Mackay, Eric
In world may come romance, With all the lures of love and glamour; And woesome tragedy will chance To him whom fairy forms enamour.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by Russell, George William
For six months after I left home I was right woesome.
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah
Thou gavest each breeze an infant's cry, A wailing, woesome tone; And in each call of wildwood bird Spoke still of freedom gone.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
