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.