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  1. lovelorn love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Bereft of love or one's lover.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Forsaken by one's love; forlorn, pining, or suffering from love.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Being lorn by love.
  2. adj. Unloved, bereft of love.
  3. adj. Rent and reived of and/or by love.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Forsaken by one's love.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

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  • “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.”

    Boing Boing

  • “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.”

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  • “I wonder if his buddies at the wharf called the lovelorn fisherman “Mr. Baiter” behind his back.”

    GUIDO BEACH: STALKER EDITION

  • “I am a poor, wretched, lovelorn creature; lovelorn, that is all!”

    Chapter XX. Book IV

  • “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.”

    Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness

  • “Alexander Ignateyevitch used to be called the lovelorn Major, but he never minded.”

    Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series

  • “This theory, while geared toward the single/"lovelorn," holds true to anybody.”

    The Washington Post: Valentine's Day: Even more stuff you didn't know you needed, and a plea to unplug

  • “But then, "lovelorn" is a redundant adjective for these Dylan tunes.”

    RJ Eskow: Dylan's New Album: It's a Passport Photo

  • “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.”

    Unwanted Wedding

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