Synonyms for forlorn
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fawr-lawrn |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔrˈlɔrn |
Top 10 synonyms for forlorn Other synonyms for the word forlorn
- abandoned
- alone
- bereft
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- cynical
- defenseless
- despairing
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- down and out
- dragging
- forgotten
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- futile
- godforsaken
- homeless
- in the dumps
- lonesome
- lost
- pathetic
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- solitary
- tragic
- unhappy
- vain
- weighed down
- woebegone
- wretched
Définition of forlorn
Origin :- mid-12c., forloren "disgraced, depraved," past participle of obsolete forlesan "be deprived of, lose, abandon," from Old English forleosan "to lose, abandon, let go; destroy, ruin," from for- "completely" + leosan "to lose" (see lose). In the Mercian hymns, Latin perditionis is glossed by Old English forlorenisse.
- Sense of "forsaken, abandoned" is 1530s; that of "wretched, miserable" first recorded 1580s. A common Germanic compound (cf. Old Saxon farilosan, Old Frisian urliasa, Middle Dutch verliesen, Dutch verliezen, Old High German virliosan, German verlieren, Gothic fraliusan "to lose").
- Commonly in forlorn hope (1570s), which is a partial translation of Dutch verloren hoop, in which hoop means "troop, band," literally "heap," and the sense of the whole phrase is of a suicide mission. The phrase is usually used incorrectly in English, and the misuse has colored the sense of forlorn. Related: Forlornly; forlornness.
- adj hopeless, inconsolable
- She had had a forlorn hope that he would throw down the sheet; but he did not.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- These men were as forlorn and miserable as my self, death grinning in our faces at every turn.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Altogether, the appearance of the individual was forlorn and miserable.
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- There were forlorn hollows under his eyes; now he looked twice his age.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- That he might be; but he was not so forlorn as to roam away and leave them together.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- The forlorn smile with which she said it, so touched him, that tears started from his eyes.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- He was not old, not alone and forlorn and cumbering the earth.
- Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- She was a widow, had just lost her father, with whom she lived, and was very miserable and forlorn.
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Poor, poor, forlorn girl—it was thus she begged and supplicated, but he denied her.
- Extract from : « Gomez Arias » by Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
- I came here with a wild sort of forlorn hope you could forgive.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
Antonyms for forlorn
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