Suffering (3 letters)

{ Answer }

WOE

{ Related Clues }

Affliction
Agony
Calamity
Distress
Grief
Heartache
Misery
Misfortune
Sorrow
Trial
Trouble
Bad news
Baneful thing
Cry of grief
Great grief
Trial and tribulation
"Come weal, come ___ . . . "
Lot for Wednesday's child
Lot of Wednesday's child
Tsuris, so to speak
The "vey" in "oy vey"
What Wednesday's child is full of

{ Tags }

affliction, anguish, child, come, cry, grief, heartache, lot, me, misery, misfortune, oy, sorrow, state, suffering, trial, tribulation, trouble, vey, wednesdays, woe

{ Notes }

The answer WOE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 140 puzzles.

{ Definition }

WOE as a noun:

1. (suffering, woe) = misery resulting from affliction

2. (woe, woefulness) = intense mournfulness