WOEFULNESS Synonyms
There are 22 hypernyms of the word woefulness. (close relations)
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| anguish | nounn | |||||
noun • extreme mental distress • extreme distress of body or mind verb • suffer great pains or distress • cause emotional anguish or make miserable | ||||||
| desolation | nounn | |||||
noun • the state of being decayed or destroyed • a bleak and desolate atmosphere • sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned • an event that results in total destruction | ||||||
| despair | nounn | |||||
noun • a state in which all hope is lost or absent • the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well verb • abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | ||||||
| distress | nounn | |||||
noun • psychological suffering • a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) • extreme physical pain • the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim verb • bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship • cause mental pain to | ||||||
| grief | nounn | |||||
noun • intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) • something that causes great unhappiness | ||||||
| heartache | nounn | |||||
noun • intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | ||||||
| melancholy | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a feeling of thoughtful sadness • a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed • a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy adjective satellite • characterized by or causing or expressing sadness • grave or even gloomy in character | ||||||
| misery | nounn | |||||
noun • a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune • a feeling of intense unhappiness | ||||||
| pain | nounn | |||||
noun • a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder • emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid • a somatic sensation of acute discomfort • something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness verb • cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed • cause emotional anguish or make miserable | ||||||
| sadness | nounn | |||||
noun • emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being • the state of being sad • the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | ||||||
| sorrow | nounn | |||||
noun • an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement • sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment • something that causes great unhappiness • the state of being sad verb • feel grief | ||||||
| suffering | nounn | |||||
noun • a state of acute pain • misery resulting from affliction • psychological suffering • feelings of mental or physical pain adjective satellite • troubled by pain or loss • very unhappy; full of misery | ||||||
| unhappiness | nounn | |||||
noun • emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being • state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief | ||||||
| wretchedness | nounn | |||||
noun • a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune • the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant • the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | ||||||
| woe | nounn | |||||
noun • misery resulting from affliction • intense mournfulness | ||||||
