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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1. Ray Buckley:

   There is no such thing as pressuring Bill Gardner and woe to the person who tries, bill is going to do what he thinks is best for the primary and that's it.

2. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables:

   Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

   Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

4. So I Married an Axe Murderer:

   Charlie Woman... woe-man... whoooa-man. She was a thief, you got to believe, she stole my heart and my cat. Judy, Betty, Josie and those hot Pussycats... they made me horny, on Saturday morning... girls of cartoo-ins will leave me in ruins... I want to to be Betty's Barney. Jane... get me off this crazy thing... called love.

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.