1 (of a bad situation) extremely; very: --
The staff was woefully underpaid and thoroughly demoralized.
Medical resources were woefully inadequate during the emergency.
The system of economic controls, however, was woefully ineffective and failed miserably both at controlling inflation and at alleviating the food shortages.
As a result, the syntactic analysis in the text, essentially the kind that was prevalent in the late 1960s, seems woefully outdated.
But, whatever else is the case, the phenomenon of the outsider-leader has in the past been neglected woefully and is - surely?
This is woefully inadequate for a number of reasons.
These surveys provide a wealth of social, demographic and economic information that is woefully underexploited.
At first glance, pensions seem woefully inadequate when compared to the labourers' wages.
However, the public opinion data that are available are woefully incomplete.
This is an exercise which falls woefully short of being able to think of better worlds that contain free agents.
