What is "woebegone" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does woebegone mean in English? Meaning of woebegone definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "woebegone" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "woebegone": worn and broken down by hard use

Adjective

  • Meaning: worn and broken down by hard use
  • Example: a creaky shack a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape a flea-bitten sofa a run-down neighborhood a woebegone old shack
  • Synonyms: creaky decrepit derelict flea-bitten run-down woebegone
  • Similar: worn
  • Pronunciation in US: wōʹbĭ-gän, IPA(key)

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/

    Meaning of "woebegone": affected by or full of grief or woe

    Adjective

  • Meaning: affected by or full of grief or woe
  • Example: his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone
  • Synonyms: woebegone woeful
  • Similar: sorrowful
  • Pronunciation in US: wōʹbĭ-gän, IPA(key)

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/

  • Adjective: In a deplorable state.Filled with or deeply affected by woe. 1957, Jack Kerouac, On The Road‎ When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.1957, Jack Kerouac, On The Road‎ When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.
  • Synonyms:

    black, bleak, blue, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, grim, hangdog, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful, wretched, bummed out, chapfallen, down-in-the-mouth, hurting, in pain, long-faced, shot down,

    Antonyms:

    enthused, excited, untroubled, happy,

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