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. Malcolm Turnbull:

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

2. David Raistrick:

   Current levels are hugely positive, and flat sales this coming year, or even a slight reduction, should still be seen as a positive position, and not a tale of woe.

3. Sigmund Freud:

   Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.

4. Hank Johnson:

   Impeachment is solemn and important but Former Nixon WH's also political, for anybody to forget that, woe be unto them.

5. Salman Rushdie:

   Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.