woes
Life's hard times
Woes are troubles, misfortunes, or sources of grief.
The word is the plural of woe, an old term for deep sorrow or distress.
Woes often appear in phrases describing categories of difficulty: financial woes, marital woes, the team's defensive woes.
The word carries a slightly literary or dramatic flavor.
Deep emotional distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- despairTotal absence of hope
misery · suffering · distress · sadness · melancholy · desolation · mourning · lamentation
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- difficultiesProblems to overcome
- tribulationsCauses of great distress
problems · setbacks · struggles · challenges · predicaments · crises · plights · ordeals
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
despair · misery · suffering · distress · sadness · melancholy · desolation · mourning · lamentation · torment
hardship
Suffering from difficult circumstances
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- misfortuneAdverse circumstance or event
- difficultiesProblems to overcome
tribulations · problems · setbacks · struggles · challenges · predicaments · crises · plights · ordeals · disasters
weight
Measure of heaviness
heaviness · yoke · albatross · millstone · encumbrance · onus · load · drag · shackle · obligation
- annoyancesannoyance, annoyances, irritations, irritation, nuisance
- hardshipshardship, adversity, struggle, misfortune, difficulties
- conflictsargument, fight, war, battle, dispute
- displeasuredispleasure, dissatisfaction, discontent, annoyance, irritation
- gripingcomplaining, grumbling, griping, grousing, kvetching
- complaintscomplaint, complain, complaints, complaint form, complaint letter
woesblessings
Favors from the divine
good fortune · prosperity · triumphs · successes · boons
- woe is meArchaic self-pity phrase
- tale of woeNarrative of suffering
- woe betideWarning of consequences
- parking woesTroubles finding vehicle spots