woe

problema, desgracia

Un problema o una dificultad grave, a menudo entre varios otros.

En inglés sencillo: A serious problem or difficulty, often one of several.

• Their money woes are growing.
• The company's financial woes began last winter.
• More bad weather added to the farmers' woes.

Sinónimos: trouble, problem, misfortune

Expresiones frecuentes: financial woe, economic woe, fresh woe

pena, aflicción

Tristeza o sufrimiento muy intensos, o algo que los causa.

En inglés sencillo: Very great sadness or suffering, or something that causes these feelings.

• Her face was full of woe.
• He told us a long tale of woe.
• The poem describes the mother's woe after losing her child.

Sinónimos: sorrow, misery, grief

Antónimos: joy, happiness

Expresiones frecuentes: full of woe, tale of woe, woe is me

maldición

Palabras con las que se desea que alguien sufra o le ocurra algo malo.

En inglés sencillo: Words wishing harm or suffering on someone.

• The prophet pronounced a woe.
• She uttered a woe against the cruel king.
• The ancient text contains several woes directed at dishonest rulers.

Cómo se usa: woe to someone (Woe to those who betray their friends.)

Sinónimos: curse, malediction

Antónimos: blessing

Expresiones frecuentes: pronounce a woe, utter a woe, woe upon someone

colega, compa

Nombre informal para un amigo cercano, especialmente del mismo grupo.

En inglés sencillo: A close friend, especially someone in your own group.

• He's my woe.
• I spent the evening with my woes.
• My woe has stayed beside me through everything.

Sinónimos: friend, buddy, homie

Antónimos: enemy

Expresiones frecuentes: my woe, with a woe, woe for life