Woebegone

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Woe-begone \Woe"-be*gone`\, a. [OE. wo begon. See {Woe}, and
     {Begone}, p. p.]
     Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow;
     woeful. --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           So woe-begone was he with pains of love. --Fairfax.
     [1913 Webster] Woeful

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  woebegone
       adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "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" [syn: {creaky},
               {decrepit}, {flea-bitten}, {run-down}]
       2: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him
          look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn: {woeful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "woebegone":
     affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, blue, bowed-down,
     cast down, cheerless, comfortless, crestfallen, crushed, cut up,
     dashed, deep-troubled, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing,
     depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, desponding,
     dilapidated, discomforting, disconsolate, discouraged,
     disheartened, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, dispiriting,
     distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, down,
     downcast, downhearted, dreary, drooping, droopy, feeling low,
     funereal, grievous, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartless,
     heartsick, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits,
     in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, joyless, lamentable,
     languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable,
     mournful, moving, oppressive, outworn, painful, pathetic,
     pessimistic, pining, piteous, pitiable, poignant, regrettable,
     rueful, sad, saddening, shabby, sharp, sore, sorrowful, spiritless,
     stricken, subdued, suicidal, touching, uncomfortable,
     weary of life, woeful, world-weary, worn, wretched