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Brokenhearted vs Woebegone - What's the difference?

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Brokenhearted is a related term of woebegone.


As adjectives the difference between brokenhearted and woebegone

is that brokenhearted is grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship while woebegone is in a deplorable state.

brokenhearted

English

Adjective

  • Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship.

    • See also

    * heartbroken * heartbreak * heartbreaker * break someone's heart

    woebegone

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a deplorable state.
  • Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
  • * 1957 , Jack Kerouac, On The Road?
    • When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.

    Synonyms

    * (in a deplorable state) dilapidated, derelict, godforsaken, ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown * (filled with woe) depressed, despondent, melancholy, miserable, sad, saddened, sorrowful, woeful * See also