Woe

//wəʊ//

Definitions

nounwoes

1
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
Oh, woe is me!
Similar
grief sorrow misery
2
Calamity, trouble.
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
Similar
adversity adversity
3
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?

adjmore woe · most woe

1
Woeful; sorrowful
hys clerk was wo to do þat dede

intj

1
An exclamation of grief.
Miranda: O woe, the day.

Word Origin

From Middle English wo, wei, wa, from Old English wā, wǣ, from Proto-West Germanic *wai, from Proto-Germanic *wai (interjection), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (interjection). See also Dutc...

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