Rundown vs Woebegone - What's the difference?
rundown | woebegone | Synonyms |
A rough outline. Generally used in the definite, as the rundown .
(baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
A Caribbean stew of fish (typically mackerel) with reduced coconut milk, yam, tomato, onion and seasonings.
In a deplorable state.
Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
* 1957 , Jack Kerouac, On The Road?
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)- Could you give me the rundown on the new rules?
- Smith is caught in a rundown , but Jones will come around to score.
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* bedraggled * broken-down * dilapidated * ramshackle * ruinous * tatterdemalion * tumbledownwoebegone
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.