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
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
creaky, decrepit, flea-bitten, run-down, woeful
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