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Definitions for Woe

[1] grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
[2] an affliction: She suffered a fall, among her other woes.
[3] an exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation.
[4] literary intense grief or misery
[5] (often plural) affliction or misfortune
[6] woe betide someone misfortune will befall someone woe betide you if you arrive late
[7] Also: woe is me archaic an exclamation of sorrow or distress

Words related to Woe

gloom, misfortune, pain, hardship, catastrophe, calamity, burden, misery, trouble, headache, anguish, tragedy, adversity, disaster, distress, misadventure, dole, unhappiness, affliction, blues

Words nearby Woe

wocas, wodehouse, woden, wodge, wodzislaw slaski, woe, woebegone, woeful, woesome, wof, woffington

Origin of Woe

before 900; Middle English wo (interjection and noun), Old English wā (interjection) (cf. wellaway); cognate with Dutch wee, German Weh, Old Norse vei, Latin vae

Word origin for Woe

Old English wā, wǣ; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wē, Old Norse vei, Gothic wai, Latin vae, Sanskrit uvē; see wail

Synonyms for Woe

adversity, anguish, burden, calamity, catastrophe, disaster, gloom, hardship, headache, misery, misfortune, pain, tragedy, trouble, affliction, agony, blues, care, cataclysm, curse, dejection, depression, distress, dole, drag, grief, heartache, heartbreak, lamentation, melancholy, misadventure, rain, regret, rue, sadness, sorrow, trial, tribulation, unhappiness, wretchedness, bemoaning, deploring, grieving