Woe Meaning. Woe definition grievous distress affliction or trouble. Used equivalently in meaning to poor me.
Sometimes woe is used in a slightly ironic way. Usually used by people over 45 years of age or by those with too much education. In weal and woe phrase.
Today woe generally means problem or worry.
Woe is me Idiom. Woe to one 1. His woe was almost beyond description. 1 Woe for sin of minds perverse Deadly fraught with mortal curse.
