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woeful has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
affected by or full of grief or woe
“his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone”
of very poor quality or condition
“deplorable housing conditions in the inner city”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for woeful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.