woe
Plural: woes
Noun
- Great sorrow, distress, or misfortune.
- misery resulting from affliction
- intense mournfulness
- Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- Calamity, trouble.
- A curse; a malediction.
Adj
- Woeful; sorrowful
Intj
- An exclamation of grief.
Examples
- It was a moment of WOE when his opponent unexpectedly played a bingo.
Origin / 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), Proto-Slavic *uvy (whence Russian увы́ (uvý)), and Armenian վայ (vay).
Synonyms
suffering, woefulness, adversity, affliction, aggrievance, apocalypse, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, blueness, blues, bummed out, calamity, catastrophe, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, crestfallenness, cut up, damp, dejected, dejection, depressed, depression, despondency, despondent, disaster, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, distress, doleful, dolefulness, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downheartedness, downsome, drearihead, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, forlornness, gloomy, glum, grief, grief-stricken, grievance, grieving, hardship, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, ill-being, inconsolable, infelicitous, infelicity, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholia, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, misery, mishappiness, moody, mopey, morose, mourn, mournful, passionate, plaintive, prosternation, qualm, querulous, regret, rue, ruth, sad, saddened, sadness, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowfulness, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, tristfulness, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, undelight, unhappiness, unhappy, unlively, vexation, wistful, woe, woebegone, woefare, woeful, wretched, wretchedness, wrong
Scrabble Score: 6
woe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwoe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
woe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary