woeful

adjective4

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

   • How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — 1595
2. •
   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. — 1598
3. •
   Wretched; paltry; poor.

   • What woful stuff this madrigal would be / In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me! — 1711
4. •
   Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.