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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wail·ful /ˈwe(ə)lfəl/
 (a.)悲歎的,哀悼的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wail·ful a. Sorrowful; mournful.  “ Like wailful widows.” --Spenser. “Wailful sonnets.” --Shak.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 wailful
      adj : vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
            expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners";
            "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her
            desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting,
             wailing]