Difference between Sorrowful and Woeful

SORROWFUL vs WOEFUL: ADJECTIVE

Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. : sad.
Causing sorrow.
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

Affected by or full of grief or woe
Affected by or full of woe; mournful.
Causing, involving, or expressing woe.
Deplorably bad.
Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad.
Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.
Wretched; paltry; poor
Of very poor quality or condition

=Syn.2. Mournful, calamitous, disastrous, afflictive, miserable, grievous. See woe.
Wretched; paltry; mean; pitiful.
Relating or pertaining to woe; expressing woe; characterized by sorrow or woe; deplorable.
Full of woe; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; sorrowful.

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Sad, Distressing, Dire, Appalling, Lamentable, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Sorrowful, Inferior, Deplorable, Woebegone, Execrable, Miserable, Wretched

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Sad, Distressing, Dire, Appalling, Lamentable, Pathetic, Pitiful, Dismal, Sorrowful, Inferior, Deplorable, Woebegone, Execrable, Miserable, Wretched

It was so sorrowful that my eyes teared up.
John the Divine are not so sorrowful as yesterday.
When he spoke his voice was resigned and sorrowful.
Patrons modulate dollar from sorrowful walk of American drugs.
He would always look like a sorrowful white boy.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
To this sorrowful appeal Moses answers with encouragement.
Francis Hospital, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Rev.
It is sorrowful only for those left behind.
Parting is sorrowful but to choose the other over God is more sorrowful and has eternal consequences.

Another shot of Padalecki looking heartbreakingly woeful and equal parts resigned.
Lack of woeful abyss Following kleenex from Long-Term breadwinner Use.
Startups with woeful credit, but, face higher hurdles to funding.
Thus was the happy ending to a woeful voyage.
Australia stands to be left in a woeful position.
Diethylpropion should not be returned, a judge woeful senility.
The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.
Funding levels for construction, operations, and maintenance are woeful.
To what do you ascribe this woeful deterioration?
In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.