Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Bereft of love or one's lover.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Forsaken by one's love; forlorn, pining, or suffering from love.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Forsaken by one's love.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
Etymologies
- love + lorn (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Her music has been described as "lovelorn acoustic guitar pop" by Time Out and Kina has been tabbed as a "rising star" by CosmoGirl.”
“Brian Hughes of "Again With the Comics" has an advice column called "Ask Golden Age Wonder Woman," in which questions from the lovelorn are answered using actual panels from old issues of Wonder Woman, surely one of the most crypto-fetishistic comics of the Golden Age.”
“Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too.”
“I wonder if his buddies at the wharf called the lovelorn fisherman “Mr. Baiter” behind his back.”
“I am a poor, wretched, lovelorn creature; lovelorn, that is all!”
“A basket for berries, a horn to call the lovelorn moose through the autumnal woods, a canvas on which to draw the outline of great and memorable fish -- all these and many other indispensable luxuries are stored up for the skilful woodsman in the birch bark.”
“Alexander Ignateyevitch used to be called the lovelorn Major, but he never minded.”
“This theory, while geared toward the single/"lovelorn," holds true to anybody.”
“But then, "lovelorn" is a redundant adjective for these Dylan tunes.”
“Only yesterday Edward had commented on how unhappy she looked; 'lovelorn' was the word he had used to describe her, pseudo - sympathetically pretending to feel sorry for her be cause Guard was neglecting her.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lovelorn’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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A Love List
lovely, loveable, lovemaking, love-suit, loveless, love-hate, lovey, lovelorn, lovesick, love-sickness, lovefest, lovebird and 91 more...
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 330 more...
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love phrases/words
how love is used
love work, love word, love-wildered, love-whispering, love visit, love verse, love veil, love-trick, love triangle, love tree, love-toy, love-touched and 273 more...
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tatterdemalion's list
chrysalis, colloquy, peroration, syncretism, dickering, gamelan, dictatress, adventurism, untenable, presumption of fa..., lovelorn, bawdily and 47 more...
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xulilux's list
leviathan, destitute, iapetus, caesura, ineffable, eschew, phosphene, fungible, antediluvian, nomenclature, mottle, europa and 84 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (L)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
labyrinth, lace, lad, lady fingers, lagoon, lamb, lament, lammas, lantern, larkspur, lass, lauds and 92 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Favorite Words II
antipode, subsumed, maladroit, quidnunc, tonsorial, savvy, vignette, retrograde, flummoxed, ne plus ultra, icosahedron, plethora and 138 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu The visuals for this one are fascinating. Feb 13, 2012