forlorn
Meanings
Plural: forlorns
Adjective Satellite
- marked by or showing hopelessness
- "the last forlorn attempt"
- "a forlorn cause"
Adj
- Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
- Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
- Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.
Noun
- A forlorn hope.
- A member of a forlorn hope.
Verb
- past participle of forlese.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną (“to lose”), equivalent to for- + lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),
German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.
Synonyms
abandoned, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, derelict, deserted, desolate, despairful, desperate, despondent, dire, discarded, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dropped, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, forsaken, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, high and dry, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, left behind, lonesome, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, orphaned, passionate, peopleless, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Scrabble Score: 10
forlorn is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordforlorn is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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