Adjective wailful has 1 sense
  1. lamenting, wailing, wailful - 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
    Antonym: joyful (indirect, via sorrowful)
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