WAILFUL

lamenting, wailing, wailful

(adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; “lamenting sinners”; “wailing mourners”; “the wailing wind”; “wailful bagpipes”; “tangle her desires with wailful sonnets”- Shakespeare

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)

(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.

You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.

Source: Wiktionary

Wail"ful, a.

Definition: Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition