Woebegone meaning

Adjective: woebegone

Pronunciation: (wow-bi,gón)

Woebegone meaning:

• Completely worn and broken down by hard use
• Full of grief or woe or miserable in appearance

Synonyms: creaky, decrepit, derelict, woeful

Quotations: Cynthia Heimel – All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.

Seán O’Casey – Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion’s wilful screaming or faith’s symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer – Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighbourliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today, and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army, fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?

James Joyce – Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

Sample sentences:

1. She wore a woebegone old shack on her wedding.
2. Her sorrow made her look haggard and woebegone.
3. For all of us, never ending and repeating catastrophes of this woebegone family read like the clues in a serious murder mystery.
4. My woebegone expressions would go straight to the heart of any woman out there.
5. Stop looking so woebegone and be active so that you could chase your dreams.
6. They always had a woebegone look on their face. They have been like this from the moment they lost the final match.
7. Near the couple, in a shadow, sat a woebegone looking man who had been holding a book so close to his eyes as to conceal his face.
8. When he went home from office in the evening, the wife at once asked him why he was so sad and woebegone.
9. She stood before me the most woebegone, heartbroken after the breakup.
10. I opened the door and was struck by his weary and woebegone face.