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# woebegone

adjective

«woebegone» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Looking very sad, unhappy or miserable. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woebegone/#m1)

### In the lessons

In tales it describes a face or look that shows someone has been unlucky.

### Examples

- Why do you look so woebegone? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woebegone/#x1)
- He had a woebegone look about him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woebegone/#x2)
- The woebegone dog sat by the gate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woebegone/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «woebegone» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woebegone/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«woebegone» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/woebegone.html) on Mova free.