forlorn

Plural: forlorns

Adjective Satellite

• marked by or showing hopelessness
  • "the last forlorn attempt"
  • "a forlorn cause"

Adj

• Abandoned, deserted, left behind.
• Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
• Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.

Noun

• A forlorn hope.
• A member of a forlorn hope.

Verb

• past participle of forlese.

Adjective

• Miserable, despairing, or abandoned; pitifully sad.

Examples

• After missing the bingo, his hopes of winning the Scrabble tournament seemed FORLORN.

Synonyms

abandoned, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, derelict, deserted, desolate, despairful, desperate, despondent, dire, discarded, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dropped, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, forsaken, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, high and dry, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, left behind, lonesome, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, orphaned, passionate, peopleless, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Related Words

forlorn hope, lovelorn

Anagrams of forlorn