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Woebegone vs Pitiable - What's the difference?

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Woebegone is a related term of pitiable.


As adjectives the difference between woebegone and pitiable

is that woebegone is in a deplorable state while pitiable is that deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.

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

    pitiable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.

    • Synonyms

    * See also