Woe

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  • noun. Sorrow or grief; misery. synonym: regret.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Misfortune or wretchedness.
  • noun. A cause of sorrow or misery; a misfortune.
  • interjection. Used to express sorrow or dismay.
  • idiom. (woe is me) Used to lament one's situation or fate.
  • idiom. (woe to (someone)) Used to express the wish that misfortune befall someone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • noun. A heavy calamity; an affliction.
  • noun. It is also used in exclamations of sorrow, in such cases the noun or pronoun following being really in the dative.
  • noun. Synonyms Distress, tribulation, affliction, bitterness, unhappiness, wretchedness. Woe is an intense unhappiness; the word is strong aud elevated, almost poetical.
  • Sad; sorrowful; miserable; woeful; wretched.
  • Alas! an exclamation of pain or grief. See woe, n.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Woeful; sorrowful.
  • noun. Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • noun. A curse; a malediction.
  • noun. Woe be to. See Worth, v. i.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • adjective. woeful; sorrowful
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. intense mournfulness
  • noun. misery resulting from affliction
  • Word Usage
    "In this chapter, Jesus used the word woe eight times as a strong warning to those who, through legalism, were keeping people out of heaven."
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