forlorn

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  1. adjective Appearing sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned.
  2. adjective Forsaken or deprived: forlorn of all hope.
  3. adjective Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition: forlorn roadside shacks.
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  • It looks lost, forlorn, as if asking itself, "Why didn't I stay in Acapulco - or Albuquerque?" —  Daily News-Record
  • During these expeditions, forlorn, at times given up for dead, exposed to tropical diseases and the danger of headhunters, he collected the skins of thousands of specimens, eating the flesh of many. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Beautiful maiden lost on the range--forlorn, homesick, wretched, scared. —  Prairie Flowers
  • I look dejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. —  The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics
  • The two mongrels were without spirit at all; bones were the only things breakable about them With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by twenty-five hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything but bright. —  The Call of the Wild
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desolate ·  wretched ·  helpless ·  sad ·  haggard ·  mournful ·  weary ·  hopeless ·  dejected ·  bleak ·  depress ·  frail
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  1. Middle English forloren, past participle of forlesen, to abandon, from Old English forlēosan; see leu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English forlorn, forloren, forlore, from Anglo-Saxon forloren (= Dutch verloren = German verloren = Danish forloren), past participle of forleósan, lose: see forlese.
 

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