forlorn

Speech parts

1. forlorn - Noun

2. forlorn - Adjective

3. forlorn - Verb

5. forlorn - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Forlese

Deserted; abandoned; lost.

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

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

A forlorn hope; a vanguard.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

abandoned miserable hopeless wretched forsaken friendless down low lost blue lonesome crestfallen goner alone empty
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Antonyms

merry jolly chipper rapt canty attended
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Phrases with the word

be forlorn forlorn baby forlorn knell

Examples

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. William Cowper

Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. William Wordsworth

Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement. J. G. Ballard

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn. Angelus Silesius

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. Walter de la Mare

Close letter words and terms

Forlivian forlong forloppin forlorn baby forlorn hope forlorn knell