Definitions for woebegone

woebegone woe·be·gone

Spelling: [woh-bi-gawn, -gon]
IPA: /ˈwoʊ bɪˌgɔn, -ˌgɒn/

Woebegone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 122 anagrams from letters in woebegone (beeegnoow).

Definitions for woebegone

adjective

  1. beset with woe; affected by woe, especially in appearance.
  2. showing or indicating woe:

Origin of woebegone

1300-50; Middle English wo begon orig., woe (has or had) surrounded (someone); wo woe + begon, past participle of begon, Old English begān to surround, besiege (see

Examples for woebegone

When he went home the frog at once asked him why he was so sad and woebegone.

Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone.

He stood before me the most woebegone, heartbroken man I ever saw.

Fred said nothing further; she was looking so ruefully woebegone.

When they saw his woebegone countenance they questioned him closely.

"She doesn't look half as woebegone over it as you do," I said.

That was snowballing a cripple, and he was really most woebegone about it.

Mary opened the door for her, and Denys was struck by her woebegone, weary face.

"No one knows," said Esther, still in the same tragic, woebegone manner.

Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.

Word Value for woebegone
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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