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forlorn

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for⋅lorn

  [fawr-lawrn]
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–adjective
1. desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
2. lonely and sad; forsaken.
3. expressive of hopelessness; despairing: forlorn glances.
4. bereft; destitute: forlorn of comfort.
Origin:
bef. 1150; ME foreloren (ptp. of forlesen to lose completely), OE forloren (ptp. of forlēosan); c. OHG firliosan (G verlieren), Goth fraliusan. See for-, lorn

Related forms:
for⋅lorn⋅ly, adverb
for⋅lorn⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. pitiful, pitiable, helpless, woebegone, comfortless. 2. alone, lost, solitary. See desolate. 4. deprived.

Antonyms:
1. happy. 2. accompanied.
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for·lorn   (fər-lôrn', fôr-)   
adj.  

    1. Appearing sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned.

    2. Forsaken or deprived: forlorn of all hope.

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

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


[Middle English forloren, past participle of forlesen, to abandon, from Old English forlēosan; see leu- in Indo-European roots.]
for·lorn'ly adv., for·lorn'ness n.
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