Woebegone vs Abject - What's the difference?
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In a deplorable state.
Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
* 1957 , Jack Kerouac, On The Road?
(obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
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Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit.
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Showing utter hopelessness; helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
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(obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
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(obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
English heteronyms
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Woebegone is a related term of abject.
As adjectives the difference between woebegone and abject
is that woebegone is in a deplorable state while abject is (obsolete) rejected; cast aside .As a noun abject is
a person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast .As a verb abject is
(obsolete) to cast off or out; to reject .woebegone
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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.
Synonyms
* (in a deplorable state) dilapidated, derelict, godforsaken, ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown * (filled with woe) depressed, despondent, melancholy, miserable, sad, saddened, sorrowful, woeful * See alsoabject
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Etymology 1
* From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "abject" is often applied: poverty, fear, terror, submission, misery, failure, state, condition, apology, humility, servitude, manner, coward.Synonyms
* beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthlessVerb
(en verb)- (John Donne)
