WOBEGONE Synonyms

• brought low in spirit

• affected or marked by low spirits

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• providing no shelter or sustenance

• crushed by grief

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• reduce in population

• cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• being or moving lower in position or less in some value

• soft fine feathers

• English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

• (American football) a complete play to advance the football

• (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

• fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

• spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position

• away from a more central or a more northerly place

• paid in cash at time of purchase

• from an earlier time

• to a lower intensity

• in an inactive or inoperative state

• extending or moving from a higher to a lower place

• becoming progressively lower

• being put out in a game of baseball

• understood perfectly

• lower than previously

• shut

• not functioning (temporarily or permanently)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• drink down entirely

• eat up completely, as with great appetite

• bring down or defeat (an opponent)

• shoot at and force to come down

• cause to come or go down

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• moody and melancholic

• showing a brooding ill humor

• less than normal in degree or intensity or amount

• being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension

• used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency

• British political cartoonist (born in New Zealand) who created the character Colonel Blimp (1891-1963)

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a low level or position or degree

• the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

• in a low position; near the ground

• very low in volume

• unrefined in character

• of the most contemptible kind

• low or inferior in station or quality

• no longer sufficient

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• make a low noise, characteristic of bovines

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness

• affected by or full of grief or woe

• of very poor quality or condition