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# woebegone

«woebegone» in Mova's school dictionary: **Looking very sad, unhappy or miserable** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woebegone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woebegone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.