woebegone
Adjective Satellite
- worn and broken down by hard use
- "a woebegone old shack"
- affected by or full of grief or woe; - George du Maurier
- "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"
Adj
- In a deplorable state.
- Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
Origin / Etymology
From Old English wābegān (“beset by woe”), from wā (“woe”) + begān (“to beset, to surround”). Equivalent to woe + begone (past participle of bego).
Synonyms
creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woeful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, dilapidated, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, querulous, ramshackle, rundown, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, tumbledown, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, wretched
Scrabble Score: 15
woebegone: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordwoebegone: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
woebegone: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary