Synonyms for woe
woʊwoe

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1. woe

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

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

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1. suffering, woenoun

   misery resulting from affliction

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

2. woe, woefulnessnoun

   intense mournfulness

   Synonyms:
   suffering, woefulness

Matched Categories

1. • Misery
   • Mournfulness

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1. woenoun

   Synonyms:
   sorrow, grief, distress, tribulation, affliction, anguish, agony, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, unhappiness, trouble, heart-ache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, mental suffering, pain of mind

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1. List of paraphrases for "woe":

   misfortune, grief, wee, sorrow, unhappiness, misery

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How to use woe in a sentence?

1. Minna Antrim:

   The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.

2. Phaedra Al-Majid:

   Woe be to any other person who cares enough to risk personal safety to report Tuesday FIFA corruption.

3. John Updike:

   A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

4. Malcolm Turnbull:

   He has set off a world of woe for those women and appalled all of us.

5. Ecclesiastes 4910 Bible:

   Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help lift him up.