wailful

Questions about wailful

What does wailful mean?

wailful means "vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression".

How many syllables are in wailful?

wailful has 2 syllables and divides as wail-ful under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wailful?

Close synonyms include lamenting, wailing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wailful a common word?

wailful is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.