woeful

adj

1. Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.

   “How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!”

2. Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.

   “a woeful event”

   “a woeful lack of restraint”

3. Lamentable, deplorable.

   “Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.”

4. Wretched; paltry; poor.

   “What woful stuff this madrigal would be / In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me!”