Woe Synonyms and Antonyms

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A state of physical or mental suffering
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. affliction
  2. agony
  3. anguish
  4. distress
  5. hurt
  6. misery
  7. suffering
  8. pain
  9. torment
  10. torture
  11. wound
  12. wretchedness
Antonyms:
  1. happiness
  2. joy
A state of prolonged anguish and privation
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. misery
  2. distress
  3. sorrow
  4. suffering
  5. grief
  6. wretchedness
  7. misfortune
  8. affliction
  9. anguish
  10. calamity
  11. pain
  12. despair
  13. disaster
  14. dismay
  15. woefulness
  16. dole
  17. dolor
  18. gloom
  19. heartache
  20. heartbreak
  21. melancholy
  22. regret
  23. tragedy
  24. tribulation
  25. trouble
  26. unhappiness
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A cause of suffering or harm
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. affliction
  2. bane
  3. curse
  4. evil
  5. ill
  6. plague
  7. scourge
Sorrow or grief; misery.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. regret
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Woe Sentence Examples

  • He related his tale of woe while enjoying the never-ending pleasure of seeing the woman he loved in various stages of nakedness.

  • Woe unto the man who does not continue in the ship !

  • Personal identity may be absorbed, as in the transmigration of souls, or it may even be denied, while the good or bad result of one life is held to determine the weal or woe of another.

  • Evening shoes are the uncomfortable woe of many women.

  • I shall never forget the ripple of alternating joy and woe that ran through that beautiful little play, or the wonderful child who acted it.

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