woe
/wəʊ/
US pronunciation
American sound/wəʊ/
woe
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- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
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- Schwa vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> woe
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
woe /wǝƱ/ n (dated or fml or joc )
၁။ [U] ပူဆွေးသောက။ a tale of woe.
၂။ woes [pl] ဒုက္ခသုက္ခ။ financial/ economic woes.
❏ woe betide sb; woe to sb [IDM ] (fml or joc ) ဒုက္ခ လှလှ တွေ့ပါစေ။ နှာခေါင်းကျည်ပွေ့တွေ့ပါစေ။ Woe betide anyone who arrives late! ❍ Woe to the person who dares to criticize her!
❏ woe is me! interj (arch or joc ) ငါ့နှယ်နော်။ ငါ့နှယ် ဖြစ်ရလေခြင်း။
More examples
- ‘Even the judiciary adds to the woe by convicting the women for soliciting.’
- ‘A dancing cosmos and a waffle iron tells of a slight decrease in your woe.’
- ‘Striker Colin Alcide will be out of action for up to six weeks piling on the injury woe for York City manager Neil Thompson.’
- ‘The midfielder is not exactly carrying a torch for his old manager but, for all the woe in his time in Scotland, he says he was a fan and still is.’
- ‘Only, and here comes the woe, dear reader, I did it all in the wrong order.’
- ‘And his Wentworth woe was the fourth time this year he had gone agonisingly close.’
- ‘I've never met him, but I'd love to inflict some of the woe he's put upon her onto his cowardly little mind.’
- ‘Bogey woe on the final day cost North Yorkshire's king of swing Simon Dyson dear in the Dubai Desert Classic.’
- ‘And to compound the woe, his father Thomas lost his battle with lung cancer.’
- ‘This is a woe I suffer from like no other, and cannot wait to be rid of it forever.’
- ‘I want the extreme anti abortionist to understand the woes and difficulties.’
- ‘And Pakistan will set England enough conundrums without added injury woes.’
- ‘With the result the woes of motorists have increased as they are finding it difficult to park vehicles.’
- ‘He may have solved Giba and Ivan's little problem, but that is only the beginning of their woes.’
- ‘Now finally clear of injury woes, the Spaniard has been dogged by ongoing back problems.’
- ‘Far from being the solution to our traffic woes, motorways are a large part of the problem.’
- ‘The extra money will do little to address the problem of Auckland's transport woes.’
- ‘His chances have been blighted by a catalogue of injury woes and financial difficulties.’
- ‘In May this year ‘Harry’ stumbled across the page via Google and posted his own woes.’
- ‘The problem with the Eastern Cape's financial woes is that there are just so many of them.’
Synonyms
anguish, affliction, sadness, despair, misery, wretchedness, adversity, agony, alas, bemoaning, blues, burden, calamity, care, cataclysm, catastrophe, curse, dear me, dejection, deploring, depression, disaster, distress, dole, drag, gee, gloom, grief, grieving, hardship, headache, heartache, heartbreak, lamentation, melancholy, misadventure, misfortune, oh, pain, rain, regret, rue, sorrow, suffering, too bad, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, woe is me
Antonyms
advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, blessing, boon, cheer, comfort, contentment, encouragement, favor, fortune, gladness, good fortune, good health, good luck, happiness, health, help, joy, joyousness, miracle, peace, pleasure, profit, prosperity, relief, success, wonder
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