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.

Concepts

woe

sorrow

grief

distress

affliction

sadness

suffering

adversity

pain

misfortune

heartbreak

trial

disaster

anguish

trouble

woe is me

unhappiness

accident

misery

woefulness

regret

heartache

ordeal

lament

tribulation

sorrowfulness

dolor

torment

woeful

vexation

misadventure

harm

wo

bane

desolation

dole

heaviness

smart

teen

regretfulness

calamity

hey

mourning

dolour

painfulness

smartness

despondency

agony

deep sorrow

depression

remorse

worry

O dear

sorry

ache

hurt

bad luck

mishap

pathetic

pitiful

catastrophe

distressed

worried

worries

grieved

brokenheartedness

commiserations

pity

plaint

ruefulness

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).