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Deplorable vs Woebegone - What's the difference?

deplorable | woebegone |

As adjectives the difference between deplorable and woebegone

is that deplorable is deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad while woebegone is in a deplorable state.

deplorable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
  • (senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

    • Synonyms

    * pathetic

    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