woful, pitiable, miserable, Hom.; of conditions, toilsome, dreary, Hom.; also sorry, poor, Hdt. [Though Hom. makes ῡ, he forms the comp. and Sup., metri grat., ὀϊζῡρώτερος, -ώτατος, for -ότερος, -ότατος.] [from ὀιζύς]