woebegone
adjective
[ ˈwəʊbɪɡɒn ]
• sad or miserable in appearance.
• "don't look so woebegone, Joanna"
Similar:
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,
down in the mouth,
down in the dumps,
blue,
dolorous,
chap-fallen,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘afflicted with grief’): from woe + begone ‘surrounded’ (past participle of obsolete bego ‘go around, beset’).
