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Woebegone vs Bereaved - What's the difference?

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Woebegone is a related term of bereaved.


As adjectives the difference between woebegone and bereaved

is that woebegone is in a deplorable state while bereaved is having suffered the death of a loved one.

As a verb bereaved is

(bereave).

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

    bereaved

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having suffered the death of a loved one
    • ''bereaved relatives

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bereave)

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