woebegone

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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},
           {derelict}, {flea-bitten}, {run-down}, {woebegone}]
    2: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him
       look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn:
       {woebegone}, {woeful}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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