- woes[plural] the troubles and problems that somebody has
- financial woes
- Thanks for listening to my woes.
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- [uncountable] great unhappiness synonym misery
- a tale of woe
Word Originnatural exclamation of lament: recorded as wā in Old English and found in several Germanic languages.
Idioms
See woe in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywoe betide somebody | woe to somebody
- (formal or humorous) a phrase that is used to warn somebody that there will be trouble for them if they do something or do not do something
- Woe betide anyone who gets in her way!
woe is me! exclamation
- (old use or humorous) a phrase that is used to say that you are very unhappy
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