WOE

woe, woefulness

(noun) intense mournfulness

suffering, woe

(noun) misery resulting from affliction

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

woe (countable and uncountable, plural woes)

Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.

Synonyms: grief, sorrow, misery

Calamity, trouble.

A curse; a malediction.

Adjective

woe (comparative more woe, superlative most woe)

(obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful

Interjection

woe

(archaic) An exclamation of grief.

Anagrams

• owe

Source: Wiktionary

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Woe, n. Etym: [OE. wo, wa, woo, AS. wa, interj.; akin to D. wee, OS. & OHG. we, G. weh, Icel. vei, Dan. vee, Sw. ve, Goth. wai; cf. L. vae, Gr. Wail.] [Formerly written also wo.]

1. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton. [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.

2. A curse; a malediction. Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice South.

Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. " Woe is me! for I am undone." Isa. vi. 5. O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life]. Chaucer. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Isa. xlv. 9. Woe worth, Woe be to. See Worth, v. i. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant gray! Sir W. Scott.

Woe, a.

Definition: Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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