Synonyms and Antonyms of woe
1
a state of great suffering of body or mind
affliction, agony, anguish, distress, excruciation, hurt, misery, pain, rack, strait(s), torment, torture, travail, tribulation
discomfort
cross, crucible, trial
heartache, heartbreak, joylessness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
emergency, pinch
asperity, difficulty, hardship, rigor
ache, pang, smarting, soreness, stitch, throe, twinge
danger, jeopardy, trouble
2
deep sadness especially for the loss of someone or something loved
- the incessant woe that has haunted her since the death of her husband
agony, distress, pain, suffering, torment
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolateness, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, distress, doldrums, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, misery, mopes, oppression, sorrowfulness, unhappiness, woefulness, wretchedness
contrition, guilt, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach, shame
melancholia, self-pity
gaiety (also gayety), gayness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, mirthfulness
hopefulness, optimism, sunniness
enjoyment
content, contentedness, contentment
blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, delight, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, pleasure, rapture, rapturousness
