Synonyms for woebegone
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Sorrowful — of a person, deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe (“great distress…
sorrowful, sad, miserable, melancholy, wretched, down, forlorn, woeful, downcast, disconsolate, doleful, cheerless, low, blue, depressed, depressing, down-hearted, broken-hearted, low-spirited, gloomy, dismal, deplorable
2. Worn — of a person or thing, having a distressed, miserable, or sad appearance
run-down, worn, derelict, dilapidated, rundown, god forsaken, flea-bitten, decrepit, ramshackle, creaky, tumbledown, shabby
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 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.
- adj. 2
Of a person or thing: having a distressed, miserable, or sad appearance.
- n. 1
A person who is deeply affected or overwhelmed by suffering or trouble, and so filled with woe.
Near-synonym: (chiefly US, informal) sad sack
Forms
- Plural
- woebegones → cut-ups…
Example sentences
- depressed Tom said Mary has been feeling depressed recently.
- downcast She went out of the room with downcast eyes.
- disconsolate A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive.
- doleful My dog died yesterday, so I'm quite doleful.
- worn I'm getting pretty worn out driving every morning.
- derelict The old mosque was derelict and rotting.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| woebegone | rising | |
| depressed | steady | |
| downcast | rising | |
| disconsolate | rising | |
| doleful | rising | |
| worn | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- low1, sad1
- 4 letters
- down1, blue1, worn1
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dismal2, shabby2, woeful2, creaky2
- 7 letters
- rundown2, forlorn2, doleful2
- 8 letters
- wretched2, derelict3, decrepit3, downcast2
- 9 letters
- miserable4, depressed2, sorrowful3, cheerless
- 10 letters
- depressing3, melancholy4, deplorable4, ramshackle3, tumbledown
- 11 letters
- dilapidated5
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gloomy2 = 2 syllables).