woebegone
adj/ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn/UK/ˈwoʊbɪɡɔn/US
Etymology
From Old English wābegān (“beset by woe”), from wā (“woe”) + begān (“to beset, to surround”). Equivalent to woe + begone (past participle of bego).
Definitions
In a deplorable state.
- The 44-year-old Prokhorov, the second-richest man in Russia, is expected to assume control of the woebegone Nets within the next few weeks.
Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
- When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.
- The woebegone children have their aspirations slowly snuffed. Grace’s artistic dreams (of animation, of course) are punctured by her isolated existence; Gilbert’s pyrophilia is smothered by religious extremism.
The neighborhood
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA