Woe vs. Alas: What's the Difference?
Woe and Alas Definitions
Woe
Sorrow or grief; misery.
Alas
Used to express sorrow, regret, grief, compassion, or apprehension of danger or evil.
Woe
Misfortune or wretchedness
Listened to his tale of woe.
Alas
A type of depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.
Woe
A cause of sorrow or misery; a misfortune
Economic and political woes.
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Alas
An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; - in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.
Woe
Used to express sorrow or dismay.
Alas
By bad luck;
Unfortunately it rained all day
Alas, I cannot stay
Woe
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
Woe
Calamity, trouble.
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Woe
A curse; a malediction.
Woe
(obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
Woe
(archaic) An exclamation of grief.
Woe
Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Thus saying, from her side the fatal key,Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
[They] weep each other's woe.
Woe
A curse; a malediction.
Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
O! woe were us alive [i.e., in life].
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker!
Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day,That costs thy life, my gallant gray!
Woe
Woeful; sorrowful.
His clerk was woe to do that deed.
Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
And looking up he waxed wondrous woe.
Woe
Misery resulting from affliction
Woe
Intense mournfulness
