"O, woe is me!" This line is from Shakespeare. When Hamlet scorns Ophelia, she utters these words to express the grief and despair that will soon drive her to suicide.
Woeful; sorrowful.
Noun
intense mournfulness
Noun
misery resulting from affliction
n.
Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
n.
A curse; a malediction.
a.
Woeful; sorrowful.
Woe
His clerk was woe to do that deed.
Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
And looking up he waxed wondrous woe.
Woeful; sorrowful.
Usage Examples
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
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Other Usage ExamplesWoe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
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