What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Woe vs Goe - What's the difference?

woe | goe |

As a noun woe

is grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.

As an adjective woe

is woeful; sorrowful.

As a verb goe is

an archaic spelling of lang=en.

woe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
  • * Milton
    • Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe , she took.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [They] weep each other's woe .
  • A curse; a malediction.
  • * South
    • Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?

    Derived terms

    * in weal or woe * woeful * woe is me

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) woeful; sorrowful
  • * Robert of Brunne
    • His clerk was woe to do that deed.
  • * Chaucer
    • Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed.
  • * Spenser
    • And looking up he waxed wondrous woe .

    Anagrams

    *

    goe

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1581, author=Anonymous, title=A Treatise Of Daunses, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Some others goe further and alledging or rather indeede abusing some peece of the Scripture
  • * {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=Black Beetles in Amber, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With divers kinds of Riddance The smoaking Earth is wet, And all aflowe to seaward goe The Torrents wide of Sweat! }}

    Anagrams

    * *