Woe

Noun

 * 1) grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

Adjectives for Woe
silent; unavailing; gloomy; unwieldy; unutterable; comic; lesser; intolerable; outward; imaginative; holy; speechless; bitter; endless; tedious; unreposing; human; immedicable;  life-consuming;   harboring; guilty; pious; tedious; immortal; irredeemable; wearied; earthly; conscious; unpre-vailing; nameless; imaginary; discordant; impending; eternal; black; worthless; outward; everlasting; mortal; incommunicable; ending; thankless; stagnant; perplexing; lofty; great; rank; inexpressible; constant; wanton; insuperable.

Verbs for Woe
afflict with—; allay—; alleviate—; babble —; bewail—; bow in—; burden with—; ease—; exclaim—; hide—; induce—; nurse —; occasion—; overcome with—; palliate —; predict—; recompense for—; remedy—; sink into—; spin out—; suffer—; triumph over—; whimper of—; —curses; —lacerates; —overwhelms; —-rends; —saddens; —sours; —wracks; —wrings.

Thesaurus
abomination, aching heart, affliction, agony, agony of mind, anguish, atrocity, bad, bale, bane, befoulment, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bitterness, bleeding heart, blight, broken heart, bugbear, burden, burden of care, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, carking care, cataclysm, catastrophe, corruption, cross, crown of thorns, crushing, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defilement, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, despoliation, destruction, detriment, disease, distress, dole, encumbrance, evil, extremity, gall, gall and wormwood, grief, grievance, harm, havoc, heartache, heartbreak, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heavy heart, hurt, ill, infection, infelicity, infliction, injury, lamentation, languishment, load, melancholia, melancholy, misadventure, mischief, misery, nemesis, open wound, oppression, outrage, pack of troubles, peck of troubles, pest, pestilence, pining, plague, poison, pollution, prostration, regret, rue, running sore, sadness, scourge, sea of troubles, sorrow, sorrowing, suicidal despair, the worst, thorn, torment, toxin, tragedy, trouble, unhappiness, venom, vexation, visitation, waters of bitterness, weight, wretchedness, wrong

Etymology
From wa:, from, whence also German weh, Old High German wē, Old Norse vei. Compare Latin vae:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:, צער, יגון


 * Italian:, , guaio
 * Polish: nieszczęście, żałość,  cierpienie,  niedola
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , sgad
 * Swedish: sorg, ve

Derived terms

 * woeful

Anagrams

 * owe