What's the difference between mournful and woeful?

Mournful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (2) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
  • (3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
  • (4) Coping with dying patients and mourning are also basic family tasks.
  • (5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
  • (6) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
  • (7) A model of transition that accounts for individual differences is used to discuss the potential interaction among variables associated with the mourning process.
  • (8) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
  • (9) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
  • (10) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
  • (11) Despite the findings of this study, it was suggested that future dove management strategies consider the possibility of disease outbreaks involving white-winged doves and susceptible populations of mourning doves.
  • (12) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
  • (13) The Afghan government has declared three days of national mourning.
  • (14) If the internet allows us all to participate in collective mourning , then it should also demand that we do so more creatively.
  • (15) It was the third day of mourning for a young man named Issam.
  • (16) In order to escape from guilt he retreated once more to the protection of the organization and it is this which prevented him mourning his lost objects.
  • (17) As a sport, we mourn for Kirsty and remember her great contribution to swimming and the Loxton community.” Boden was a keen traveller and said she was “just your average dreamer, with a full-time job and a constant longing to go where I haven’t been”.
  • (18) Finally, Germany also mourned the death of four people in a car accident in Hamburg.
  • (19) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
  • (20) Last month saw impassioned protests from immigrant representatives after the mayor refused to declare an official day of mourning for three Chinese drowned in floods.

Woeful


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Woful

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brazil, despite some woeful performances this year, is still the most successful international team but has not exactly been a political giant for most of its existence.
  • (2) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
  • (3) The bill will allow same-sex marriage for the first time in the UK; it will offer the opportunity to convert civil partnerships to marriages; it will offer opt-in rights to religious establishments, with the exception of the Church of England; it will also allow transgender people to change their legal gender without dissolving their marriages (a woeful omission from earlier legislation).
  • (4) Herrera’s bending cross reached Depay and he punished Watford’s woeful marking by cushioning a firm volley past Heurelho Gomes.
  • (5) TOP-AND-BOTTOM-OF-THE-TABLE BEATINGS "Nottingham Forest's woeful 4-0 home defeat to Scunthorpe made me think: what's the worst defeat suffered by a team leading its league?"
  • (6) The woeful lack of clarity does not engender confidence and trust.
  • (7) His first touch is woeful and a shooting chance goes a begging.
  • (8) However, Nwofor capitalised on some woeful defending from Hanley in the 90th minute to sweep the ball home from close range.
  • (9) Labour’s communication strategy remains woeful, and it lacks the means to develop a grand narrative that ties this all together, or a way of getting out of the “but you caused the last crisis through your profligacy” trap.
  • (10) He’s a man that, at 22, clearly has the world at his feet.” Everton could not have wished for a better start as Villa’s woeful defending at set pieces was again exposed.
  • (11) This would be a woeful prospect when taken in isolation, but seems more reprehensible when we know that others with much greater liabilities (moral if not legal ones) are treated with kid gloves.
  • (12) Kevin Mountford of Moneysupermarket.com said most savers were still earning "very woeful rates" and could improve their returns by shopping around.
  • (13) "I've been shocked at how America's politicians have been cowed into a woeful, shameful virtual silence by the gun lobbyists and the all-powerful National Rifle Association in particular," Morgan said.
  • (14) The atomic lobby sometimes tries to pass off this woeful track record as ancient history, but it is not – just ask the Finns .
  • (15) Its computer systems are still woeful, with paper files still used more often than the tools of modern electronic case management.
  • (16) The figures in computing and engineering are woeful and I think that is to do with perceptions.
  • (17) I've gone for the 49ers 31-21, but I've had a pretty woeful playoffs as far as predictions go.
  • (18) Despite Cameron's promises that he would lead the campaign to empower women and ensure female equality, Britain ranks a woeful 65th in the world in terms of female representation in parliament behind Kazakhstan, Lesotho and even Afghanistan.
  • (19) Their own civil servants have already advised them that 40,000 more children would fall into poverty as a result of extending the cap (this is likely to be a woeful underestimate of the true figure).
  • (20) And the public accounts committee has decried the woeful success rate of his schemes.