griefful

English

Etymology

From grief +‎ -ful.

Adjective

griefful (comparative more griefful, superlative most griefful)

1. (archaic) Expressing or full of grief; painful.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     each the other gan with passion great, / And griefull pittie priuately bemone.

Derived terms

• grieffully