What does downgone mean?
Downgone means (US, dialectal, Appalachia) Poor-looking; shabby.
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(US, dialectal, Appalachia) Poor-looking; shabby.
When they got to the place, Waits saw that auctions down valley were very seemingly like any others, and he saw the same crowd of buggies and mules and cars all hitched together around the downgone farm-place till it was a surprise anybody could untwine them one from the other.
Use downgone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Downgone means (US, dialectal, Appalachia) Poor-looking; shabby.
Common synonyms include run-down, decrepit, shabby.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When they got to the place, Waits saw that auctions down valley were very seemingly like any others, and he saw the same crowd of buggies and mules and cars all hitched together around the downgone farm-place till it was a surprise anybody could untwine them one from the other.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.