forlorn
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6.8
- adjective
- /fɔrˈlɔrn/
:
desolado
- The abandoned puppy sat on the street looking forlorn and lonely, hoping someone would take him home.
- a forlorn hope
- felt forlorn
Your lips on my neck, your postmodern sexuality forlorn and anonymous.
- Your lips on my neck, your postmodern sexuality forlorn and anonymous.
- So it seems like a somehow a kind of forlorn place for these people to wound up on the fridge.
Examples
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Archie stood and looked at the forlorn piece of furniture for some time.
Fiction book (1990) -
Later that night, alone in their respective rooms, Mary and Ben found themselves doing what many of us tend to do when we're feeling forlorn.
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What are you looking so forlorn about, hmm?
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One seems so forlorn without them.
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- We're all forlorn these days.
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And, she supposed, looking into his forlorn face, she had better take the poor fellow with her.
Fiction book (1995) -
So maybe it's not surprising that she should have been forlorn all the way through.
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"I tried to sound upbeat about it, but forlorn is what I really felt."
Academic text (2009) -
It was a forlorn type of situation, a desperate situation, one without hope.
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So he simply looked at her profile as she sat, forlorn, shoulders slumped, staring out the windshield.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
441
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
48
2.5
Feeling no hope about a situation or the future
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
23
4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
4
4.6
Feeling very hopeless and sad
3
4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
Not expecting success or any improvement
Antonyms
Compounds
How Sad
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word forlorn comes from old English parts for- ('completely') and lorn ('lost'), so it originally meant 'completely lost' or 'left alone'. That's why someone or something called forlorn looks sad, lonely, and without hope.