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Meaning of "woebegone" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WOEBEGONE

From a phrase such as me is wo begon woe has beset me.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WOEBEGONE

woebegone  [ˈwəʊbɪˌɡɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WOEBEGONE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Woebegone is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES WOEBEGONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lake Wobegon

For the lake at Indian Mound Park in Ortona, Florida see Ortona, Glades County, Florida For the shark see Wobbegong. Lake Wobegon is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Minnesota, said to have been the boyhood home of Garrison Keillor, who reports the News from Lake Wobegon on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion.

Definition of woebegone in the English dictionary

The definition of woebegone in the dictionary is sorrowful or sad in appearance. Other definition of woebegone is afflicted with woe.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WOEBEGONE


bygone
ˈbaɪˌɡɒn
chiliagon
ˈkɪlɪəˌɡɒn
decagon
ˈdɛkəˌɡɒn
dodecagon
dəʊˈdɛkəˌɡɒn
endecagon
enˈdekəˌɡɒn
epigon
ˈɛpɪˌɡɒn
estragon
ˈɛstrəˌɡɒn
flexagon
ˈflɛksəˌɡɒn
glucagon
ˈɡluːkəˌɡɒn
isogon
ˈaɪsəʊˌɡɒn
nonagon
ˈnɒnəˌɡɒn
pentagon
ˈpɛntəˌɡɒn
polygon
ˈpɒlɪˌɡɒn
spermogone
ˈspɜːməʊˌɡɒn
tetragon
ˈtɛtrəˌɡɒn
trimetrogon
traɪˈmɛtrəˌɡɒn
undecagon
ʌnˈdɛkəˌɡɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WOEBEGONE

wobbliness
wobbly
Woburn Abbey
Wodan
Wodehouse
Wodehousian
Woden
wodge
woe
woe betide someone
woebegoneness
woeful
woefully
woefulness
woeness
woes
woesome
wof
Woffington
wofully

WORDS THAT END LIKE WOEBEGONE

agone
Antigone
begone
doer and gone
doggone
epigone
far gone
foregone
forgone
isogone
orgone
outgone
perigone
undergone

Synonyms and antonyms of woebegone in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WOEBEGONE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «woebegone» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of woebegone

Translation of «woebegone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WOEBEGONE

Find out the translation of woebegone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of woebegone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «woebegone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

愁眉苦脸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

woebegone
570 millions of speakers

English

woebegone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

woebegone
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

woebegone
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

захолустными
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

woebegone
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আর্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

désolé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Woebegone
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kummervoll
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

woebegone
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

woebegone
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Woebegone
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

vẻ buồn rầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துக்கம் நிறைந்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुःस्वप्न
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üzüntülü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

triste
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

woebegone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

закутковим
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

văicăreală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θλιμμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongeneeslik
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

woebegone
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

woebegone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of woebegone

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WOEBEGONE»

The term «woebegone» is regularly used and occupies the 93.361 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WOEBEGONE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «woebegone» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «woebegone» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about woebegone

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOEBEGONE»

Discover the use of woebegone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to woebegone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Woebegone
The town of Woebegone barely survived on its cattle market trade.
D. D. Lang, 1998
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toga! toga! toga!
GEORGE: Who's talking about dying? VELMA: "The valiant never taste of death but once." GEORGE: Will you stop talking like that, Velma. You're making me nervous. MlSS WOEBEGONE'S VOlCE: (From OFF LEFT.) Brewster! GEORGE: She's ...
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Burgher and the Woebegone
Burgher is a gnome, which is just another name for an ugly elf.
Kim Chatel, 2010
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Do-It-Yourself BIBLE PROPHECY KIT!
Toothier, hell-bent, tuberous, sneering weirdo. Bonnier hero twitters deleterious bunghole. Worn-out, roughish, obedient, serene belittler. Bed wetter troubling heroine's heroines lout. Woebegone, thornier, snoutish, rude belittler. Woebegone ...
J. Smith
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The Woebegone Twins
When twins Greta and Feliks lose their beloved Aunt Gisela to a poisoned marzipan cake and are sent to the ill-omened Schwartzgarten Reformatory for Maladjusted Children it seems their fate is sealed ... that is until they are rescued by ...
Christopher William Hill, 2014
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Tales from Schwartzgarten: 2: The Woebegone Twins
The novel has eerie similarities to the twins' adventures in Castle Van Veenen, and Greta and Feliks begin to question whether their guardian has deliberately placed them in danger for literary inspiration.
Christopher William Hill, 2013
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
Not to be at the breakfast and see the best of the fun, disgusted him — Meredith) Woebegone usually suggests a frame of mind but it emphasizes the impression of dejection and defeat produced on an observer not only hy the facial ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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Selections from Don Quixote: A Dual-Language Book
And so I say that the aforementioned sage must have now placed on your tongue and in your mind the idea of calling me the Knight of the Woebegone Face, which I intend to call myself from this day forward. In order for the name to suit me ...
Miguel de Cervantes [Saavedra], 2012
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After Dunkirk
"There will be three of you young gentlemen upstairs," the landlady said. And in the small room under the eaves, the middle bed was crumpled up already. On the one by the window a woebegone-looking moonface sat. (Ah, Luthie, Luthie!
Milena McGraw, 1999
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Dictionary of Confusable Words
woebegone see woeful woeful/woebegone Woeful is used for something wretched or unhappy: 'It was a woeful tale she had to tell.' Woebegone is used for someone who is wretched or unhappy: 'The child had such a woebegone expression ...
Adrian Room, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOEBEGONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term woebegone is used in the context of the following news items.
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Megliola: Change the only way out of cellar for woebegone Red Sox
Megliola: Change the only way out of cellar for woebegone Red Sox. It really didn't take that long to deduce that the 2015 Red Sox had a one-way ticket to ... «Milford Daily News, Aug 15»
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Radio review: Fond farewell to Lake Woebegone
And so... it's so long to Lake Woebegon, Garrison Keillor, the laconic host of the Prairie Home Companion is hanging up his boots – he is in his late 70s and this ... «the Irish News, Jul 15»
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Cat Power Is a Woebegone Singing Gorilla in Adult Swim's 'China IL …
Adult Swim is a very musical-minded network, and they tend to get a lot of great artists from the alternative and indie worlds to help out with their various weird, ... «SPIN, Jun 15»
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Mahesh Bhatt is woebegone over Alia's decision of moving out!
While Alia has bought a place very close to her present home, daddy Bhatt is woebegone about his beti moving out. Alia's mom Soni, and her maternal ... «PINKVILLA, Jun 15»
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Listen: Wild Beasts - Woebegone Wanderers II
Wild Beasts have unveiled a previously unreleased track titled “Woebegone Wanderers II”, with it getting a premiere on Jon Hopkins' BBC Radio 1 Residency ... «HUH., Apr 15»
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Wally Kennedy: Whisler's in Joplin worth woebegone wait
You surely remember that scene from "Jaws'' where Roy Scheider has his first face-to-face encounter with the shark at sea. Stunned by the size of the shark, ... «Joplin Globe, Apr 15»
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Wild Beasts premiere new song “Woebegone Wanderers II” — listen
During this week's episode, which he co-hosted with Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe, he let loose an unreleased Wild Beasts song titled “Woebegone Wanderers II” ... «Consequence of Sound, Apr 15»
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Wild Beasts partage le morceau Woebegone Wanderers II
Depuis quelques années, on serait tenté de dire que s'il y a une voix à suivre, c'est forcément celle d'Hayden Thorpe, Woebegone Wanderers II nous donne ... «welovemusic.fr, Apr 15»
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Woebegone kins suffer endless trauma due to 'enforced …
Wearing a crestfallen expression on face, Khazir Begum's courage is masked by her woefulness as she sits in Srinagar's Pratap Park recollecting her poignant ... «I am in dna of India, Apr 15»
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Garrison Keillor: A visit with the peerless bard of Lake Woebegone
Seventy-two-year-old Garrison Keillor last summer marked the 40th anniversary of his beloved radio show 'A Prairie Home Companion.' Contributed. «Santa Cruz Sentinel, Apr 15»

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