英语词汇“woebegone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

woebegone

/ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn

adjective

Sad or miserable in appearance: don’t look so woebegone, Joanna...

This is the party you could have if you only did something, instead of sitting here, feeling dejected, disconsolate and woebegone…
Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio.
She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.

Synonyms

sad, unhappy, miserable, dejected, disconsolate, forlorn, crestfallen, sorry for oneself, hangdog, abject, downcast, glum, gloomy, doleful, downhearted, despondent, melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, woeful, lugubrious, long-faced, depressed, despairing, desolate, wretched;

tearful

informal down in the mouth, down in the dumps, blue

literary dolorous

archaic chap-fallen

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'afflicted with grief'): from woe + begone 'surrounded' (past participle of obsolete bego 'go around, beset').

单词	woebegone
释义	woebegone /ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn / adjective Sad or miserable in appearance: don’t look so woebegone, Joanna... This is the party you could have if you only did something, instead of sitting here, feeling dejected, disconsolate and woebegone… Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio. She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end. Synonyms sad, unhappy, miserable, dejected, disconsolate, forlorn, crestfallen, sorry for oneself, hangdog, abject, downcast, glum, gloomy, doleful, downhearted, despondent, melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, woeful, lugubrious, long-faced, depressed, despairing, desolate, wretched; tearful informal down in the mouth, down in the dumps, blue literary dolorous archaic chap-fallen Origin Middle English (in the sense 'afflicted with grief'): from woe + begone 'surrounded' (past participle of obsolete bego 'go around, beset').
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