woeful

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.

How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace!

Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.

a woeful event

a woeful lack of restraint

Lamentable, deplorable.

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.

Wretched; paltry; poor.

What woful stuff this madrigal would be / In some starv'd hackney sonneteer or me!