(archaic) An exclamation of grief.

Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness. / Calamity, trouble. / A curse; a malediction.

(obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful

plural of woe

(sometimes humorous) Used to show that the speaker feels distress or misery.

(transitive, idiomatic, humorous or literary) Used to warn someone that trouble will occur if that person does something: bad things will happen to.

In both prosperity and adversity.

In a deplorable state. / Filled with or deeply affected by woe.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity. / Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction. / Lamentable, deplorable. / Wretched; paltry; poor.

The quality of being woeful.