wobegone

Adjective

woebegone (comparative more woebegone, superlative most woebegone)

1. Of a person: deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe (“great distress or sadness”); (loosely) forlorn, sad, unhappy.
   • [M]ake an ende of mone, / For you are ſicke, and ſhe is woe begone.1576, George Gascoigne, “[Flowers.] The Delectable History of Sundry Aduentures Passed by Dan Bartholomew of Bathe.”, in The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. […], London: […] H[enry] Bynneman for...

   Synonyms:

   lamentable, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen

2. (broadly) Of a person or thing: having a distressed, miserable, or sad appearance.
   • Pen and Miss Bolton were hard by listening to the same concert, and the latter remarked, and Pen laughed at Mr. Foker's wo-begone face. Fanny asked what it was that made that odd-looking little man so dismal? "I think he is crossed in love!" Pen said.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Monseigneur s’ Amuse”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 84

   Synonyms:

   derelict, dilapidated, godforsaken, ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown

3. (broadly) Of a thing: in a deplorable state.
   • The 44-year-old [Mikhail] Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks.2010 April 27, Howard Beck, “Russian billionaire is white knight for the Nets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan...

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