What is the meaning of 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
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