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- pronunciation:
- for
lorn
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective)
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
desolate or unhappy, as from abandonment or weariness.
The new kid looked somewhat forlorn sitting by himself in the cafeteria.The exhausted and forlorn prisoners marched back to the prison.- synonyms:
- desolate, despondent, doleful, melancholy
- antonyms:
- happy
- similar words:
- depressed, dispirited, down, forsaken, glum, helpless, low-spirited, miserable, sad, unhappy, woeful, wretched
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| definition 2: |
nearly hopeless.
He made a forlorn attempt to study for the test.- synonyms:
- hopeless
- similar words:
- despairing, dispirited
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| definition 3: |
in a pitiable state; wretched.
Those houses that survived the flood stood abandoned and forlorn.- synonyms:
- miserable, woebegone, woeful
- similar words:
- desolate, pitiful, wretched
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| related words: |
bleak, broken-hearted, cheerless, disconsolate, downcast, downhearted, hopeless, lonely, lonesome, low, melancholy, pensive, poor, stark, woebegone |
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| derivations: |
forlornly (adv.), forlornness (n.) |
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