woe

Meaning

Noun

1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
2. Calamity, trouble.
3. A curse; a malediction.

Adj

Woeful; sorrowful

Intj

An exclamation of grief.

Synonyms

sorrow

grief

distress

sadness

affliction

suffering

pain

adversity

misfortune

woe is me

trouble

heartbreak

disaster

anguish

trial

accident

misery

unhappiness

heartache

woefulness

regret

dolor

sorrowfulness

tribulation

lament

torment

ordeal

woeful

remorse

ruefulness

smart

smartness

sorry

teen

vexation

wo

worried

😟

worries

worry

brokenheartedness

depression

O dear

ache

agony

bad luck

bane

calamity

catastrophe

commiserations

deep sorrow

desolation

despondency

distressed

dole

dolour

grieved

harm

heaviness

hey

hurt

misadventure

mishap

mourning

painfulness

pathetic

pitiful

pity

plaint

regretfulness

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wəʊ/

Etymology

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 Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish וויי (vey); also Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek οὐαί (ouaí), Persian وای (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian վայ (vay).