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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. worn and broken down by hard use;
- Example: "a creaky shack"
- Example: "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"
- Example: "a flea-bitten sofa"
- Example: "a run-down neighborhood"
- Example: "a woebegone old shack"
[syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]

2. affected by or full of grief or woe;
- Example: "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
[syn: woebegone, woeful]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Woe-begone \Woe"-be*gone`\, a. [OE. wo begon. See Woe, and Begone, p. p.] Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] So woe-begone was he with pains of love. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] Woeful
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

woebegone adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone] 2: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn: woebegone, woeful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

95 Moby Thesaurus words for "woebegone": affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, blue, bowed-down, cast down, cheerless, comfortless, crestfallen, crushed, cut up, dashed, deep-troubled, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, desponding, dilapidated, discomforting, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, drooping, droopy, feeling low, funereal, grievous, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartless, heartsick, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, joyless, lamentable, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, moving, oppressive, outworn, painful, pathetic, pessimistic, pining, piteous, pitiable, poignant, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, shabby, sharp, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, stricken, subdued, suicidal, touching, uncomfortable, weary of life, woeful, world-weary, worn, wretched