Word Meanings - WEEPFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. Wyclif.
Related words: (words related to WEEPFUL)
- GRIEVE
1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over; - GRIEVABLE
Lamentable. - WEEPING TREE
Any tree having pendulous branches. A tree from which honeydew or other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp. one infested by the larvæ of any species of the genus Ptylus, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical - GRIEVOUS
1. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. The famine was grievous in the land. Gen. xii. 10. The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight. Gen. xxi 11. 2. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; - WEEPER
The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 . (more info) 1. One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears. 2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith. - GRIEVANCER
One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. Petition . . . against the bishops as grand grievancers. Fuller. - GRIEVANCE
1. A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury. 2. Grieving; grief; affliction. The . . . grievance of a mind unreasonably - WYCLIFITE; WYCLIFFITE
A follower of Wyclif, the English reformer; a Lollard. - WEEP
The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry. - WEEPFUL
Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. Wyclif. - GRIEVE; GREEVE
A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott. - GRIEVER
One who, or that which, grieves. - GRIEVING
Sad; sorrowful; causing grief. -- n. - WEEPINGLY
In a weeping manner. - WEEPING-RIPE
Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. Shak. - LAMENTATION
1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii. - WEEPING
The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears. - ENSWEEP
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson. - AGGRIEVANCE
Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. - ENGRIEVE
To grieve. Spenser. - PEASWEEP
The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch. - SWEEPAGE
The crop of hay got in a meadow. - FORWEEP
To weep much. - SWEEPING
Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping - SWEEP-SAW
A bow-saw. - SWEEPY
Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden. - INGRIEVE
To render more grievous; to aggravate. Sir P. Sidney. - SWEEPWASHER
One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used. - SWEEPER
One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.