griefful

English

Etymology

From grief +‎ -ful.

Adjective

griefful (comparative more griefful, superlative most griefful)

  1. (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
      each the other gan with passion great, / And griefull pittie priuately bemone.
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