Thesaurus:woe
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: an instance or cause of unhappiness
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- aggrievance
- distress [⇒ thesaurus]
- grief
- grievance
- hardship
- misery
- ruth (obsolete)
- sadness [⇒ thesaurus]
- sorrow
- undelight
- woe
- wrong
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- black day (idiomatic)
- dark cloud (idiomatic)
- injustice
- regret
- sob story
Hypernyms
[edit]Various
[edit]- oppression
- ordeal
- wringer (figurative)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “woe” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.