Antonyms for woe
woʊwoe

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1. woe

   Antonyms:
   joy, gladness, comfort, boon, happiness, prosperity, weal, benediction, blessing

   Synonyms:
   grief, sorrow, misery, calamity, affliction, distress, disaster, trouble, malediction, curse

Matched Categories

1. • Misery
   • Mournfulness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. suffering, woenoun

   misery resulting from affliction

   Synonyms:
   agony, suffering, distress, hurt, woefulness, excruciation

2. woe, woefulnessnoun

   intense mournfulness

   Synonyms:
   suffering, woefulness

How to use woe in a sentence?

1. Homer:

   Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

2. Benjamin Crump:

   He listened, heard their pain, and shared in their woe, that compassion meant the world to this grieving family.

3. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy:

   Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

4. Danish proverb:

   Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.

5. Will Durant:

   Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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