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Rundown vs Woebegone - What's the difference?

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Rundown is a synonym of woebegone.


As adjectives the difference between rundown and woebegone

is that rundown is while woebegone is in a deplorable state.

As a noun rundown

is a rough outline generally used in the definite, as the rundown .

rundown

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rough outline. Generally used in the definite, as the rundown .
  • Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?
  • (baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
  • Smith is caught in a rundown , but Jones will come around to score.
  • A Caribbean stew of fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Synonyms

    * bedraggled * broken-down * dilapidated * ramshackle * ruinous * tatterdemalion * tumbledown

    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