All woe synonyms
woe
W w noun woe
- anguish β Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
- grief β keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- affliction β An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
- distress β great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- sadness β affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
- despair β Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- wretchedness β very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- misery β wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- suffering β the state of a person or thing that suffers.
- adversity β an unfortunate event or incident
- burden β If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
- calamity β A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- catastrophe β A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- disaster β a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- gloom β total or partial darkness; dimness.
- hardship β a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- headache β a pain located in the head, as over the eyes, at the temples, or at the base of the skull.
- misfortune β adverse fortune; bad luck.
- pain β physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- tragedy β a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- agony β Agony is great physical or mental pain.
- blues β a feeling of depression or deep unhappiness
- care β If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
- cataclysm β A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- curse β If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something.
- dejection β Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- depression β A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- dole β Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969β96.
- drag β drag and drop
- heartache β emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
- heartbreak β great sorrow, grief, or anguish.
- lamentation β the act of lamenting or expressing grief.
- melancholy β sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- misadventure β an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
- rain β water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter. Compare drizzle (def 6).
- regret β to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.
- rue β to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities.
- sorrow β distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- trial β German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- tribulation β grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
- unhappiness β sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- deploring β Present participle of deplore.
- grieving β to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.