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woe

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As a noun, woe means great sadness or distress.

Meanings of woe

7 meanings

noun

  1. Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.

  2. Calamity, trouble.

  3. A curse; a malediction.

  4. Misery resulting from affliction

    Similar: suffering

  5. Intense mournfulnessfeeling

    Similar: woefulness

adjective

  1. obsoleteWoeful; sorrowful

interjection

  1. archaicAn exclamation of grief.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: misery resulting from affliction
suffering
noun: intense mournfulness
woefulness

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