Woe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Deep distress or misery, as from grief; wretchedness. See Synonyms at regret.
  • n. Misfortune; calamity: economic and political woes.
  • interjection. Used to express sorrow or dismay.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • adj. woeful; sorrowful
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • n. A curse; a malediction.
  • adj. Woeful; sorrowful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Alas! an exclamation of pain or grief. See woe, n.
  • n. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • n. A heavy calamity; an affliction.
  • n. It is also used in exclamations of sorrow, in such cases the noun or pronoun following being really in the dative.
  • n. Synonyms Distress, tribulation, affliction, bitterness, unhappiness, wretchedness. Woe is an intense unhappiness; the word is strong aud elevated, almost poetical.
  • Sad; sorrowful; miserable; woeful; wretched.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. intense mournfulness
  • n. misery resulting from affliction
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Form
    woeful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    grief    sorrow    misery    curse    malediction    woeful    sorrowful    depression   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au    Beau    Bio    Bo    Bordeaux    Boudreaux    Bow    Cloe    Co    Cousteau   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    misery    suffer    calamity    terror    distress    tragedy    humiliation    remorse    bitterness    loneliness