Hypertext Webster Gateway: "woebegone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
So woe-begone was he with pains of love. --Fairfax.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}, {flea-bitten}, {run-down}]
2: affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him
look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier [syn: {woeful}]
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