Usually means: Beset with woe; sorrowful, despondent.
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  1. woebegone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. woebegone: Merriam-Webster
  3. woebegone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. woebegone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. woebegone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. woebegone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Woebegone, woebegone: Wordnik
  8. woebegone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. woebegone: Wiktionary
  10. woebegone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. woebegone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. woebegone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. woebegone: Dictionary.com
  14. woebegone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Woebegone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. woebegone: Rhymezone
  17. woebegone: FreeDictionary.org
  18. woebegone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. woebegone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Woebegone: World Wide Words

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  1. woebegone: Encyclopedia

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  1. woebegone: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  In a deplorable state.
▸ adjective:  Filled with or deeply affected by woe.

Similar:
woeful, sorrowful, decrepit, run-down, worn, creaky, flea-bitten, wobegone, wojus, wofull, more...

Opposite:
joyful, elated, ecstatic, jubilant

Types:
pathetic, pitiful, pitiable, wretched, miserable, hopeless, helpless, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, more, old, dear, scarred

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     gunmetal, more...


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Similar:
woeful, sorrowful, decrepit, run-down, worn, creaky, flea-bitten, wobegone, wojus, wofull, more...

Opposite:
joyful, elated, ecstatic, jubilant

Types:
pathetic, pitiful, pitiable, wretched, miserable, hopeless, helpless, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, more, old, dear, scarred

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     gunmetal, more...



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