Word Meanings - WOE-BEGONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WOE-BEGONE)

• Forlorn
• Abandoned
• deserted
• forsaken
• solitary
• destitute
• desolate
• hapless
• luckless
• helpless
• disconsolate
• lone
• woe-begone
• lonesome
• wretched
• Heartbroken
• Disconsolate
• broken-hearted
• inconsolable
• Sad
• Heavy
• grave
• dull
• sorrowful
• calamitous
• dismal
• doleful
• mournful
• gloomy
• dejected
• depressed
• cheerless
• serious
• downcast
• grievous
• melancholy
• saturnine
• Sorry
• Grieved
• pained
• hurt
• afflicted
• downhearted
• mortified
• vexed
• poor
• mean
• vile
• shabby
• worthless

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WOE-BEGONE)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to WOE-BEGONE)

• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• VEXILLAR; VEXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation , a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants. (more info)
• MORTIFIER
  One who, or that which, mortifies.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• GAINPAIN
  Bread-gainer; -- a term applied in the Middle Ages to the sword of a hired soldier.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.