Woebegone vs Bleak - What's the difference?
woebegone | bleak |
In a deplorable state.
Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
* 1957 , Jack Kerouac, On The Road?
Without color; pale; pallid.
* Foxe
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
* Wordsworth
* Longfellow
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidae.
As adjectives the difference between woebegone and bleak
is that woebegone is in a deplorable state while bleak is without color; pale; pallid.As a noun bleak is
a small european river fish (alburnus alburnus ), of the family cyprinidae.woebegone
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.
Synonyms
* (in a deplorable state) dilapidated, derelict, godforsaken, ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown * (filled with woe) depressed, despondent, melancholy, miserable, sad, saddened, sorrowful, woeful * See alsobleak
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bleke (also bleche > English .Adjective
(er)- When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
- Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
- at daybreak, on the bleak sea beach
- A bleak and bare rock.
- They escaped across the bleak landscape.
- A bleak , crater-pocked moonscape.
- We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
- Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
- A bleak future is in store for you.
- The news is bleak .
- The survey paints a bleak picture.