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adj. Appearing sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned.

adj. Forsaken or deprived: forlorn of all hope.

adj. Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition: forlorn roadside shacks.

adj. Nearly hopeless; desperate. See Synonyms at despondent.

v. Past participle of forlese

adj. abandoned, left behind, deserted

adj. miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.

adj. Deserted; abandoned; lost.

adj. Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.

n. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

n. A forlorn hope; a vanguard.

Lost; deserted; forsaken; abandoned.

Hence Without help or succor; helpless; wretched; miserable.

Small; despicable: in a ludicrous sense.

Deprived; bereft; destitute.

Synonyms Friendless, miserable, comfortless, disconsolate, woebegone, abject, pitiable.

n. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

n. A forlorn hope; an advanced body of troops; a vanguard.

adj. marked by or showing hopelessness

"PREVIOUS to the departure of Captain Overbury, Charlotte had solicited Mrs. Danby to reside entirely at her house, as long as she should be compelled to sustain what she termed her forlorn situation; and that lady, having readily acceded to the proposal, had wholly quitted her own habitation, and was now a constant resident with her daughter-in-law. —"

hopeless   

forlorn boys    forlorn hope   

forlornly    forlorn hope    forlornness   

friendless    solitary    miserable    wretched    pitiable    forsaken    destitute    lost    abject    hopeless    helpless   

Born    Horn    Horne    Lorne    Thorn    Thorne    aborn    adorn    born    borne   

desolate    wretched    helpless    sad    haggard    mournful    weary    hopeless    dejected    bleak