forlorn as an adjective: - 1
forlorn
adjective
1 forlorn
Marked by or showing hopelessness.
Roget 837:
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless;
uncheerful,
uncheery†;
unlively†;
unhappy
etc.
828;
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat;
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater†;
depressing
etc.
v..
melancholy as a gib cat;"
oppressed with melancholy,
a prey to melancholy;
downcast,
downhearted;
down in the mouth,
down in one's luck;
heavy-hearted;
in the dumps,
down in the dumps,
in the suds,
in the sulks,
in the doldrums;
in doleful dumps,
in bad humor;
sullen;
mumpish†,
dumpish,
mopish†,
moping;
moody,
glum;
sulky
etc.
(discontented)
832;
out of sorts,
out of humor,
out of heart,
out of spirits;
ill at ease,
low spirited,
in low spirits,
a cup too low;
weary
etc.
841;
discouraged,
disheartened;
desponding;
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful†;
dolesome†,
doleful;
woebegone;
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed;
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot;
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure;
grim;
grim-faced,
grim-visaged;
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate;
unconsolable,
inconsolable;
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart;
soul sick,
heart sick;
au desespoir [Fr.];
in despair
etc.
859;
lost.
overcome;
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down;
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828†;
cut up,
dashed,
sunk;
unnerved,
unmanned;
down fallen,
downtrodden;
broken-hearted;
careworn.
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Roget 893:
secluded,
sequestered,
retired,
delitescent†,
private,
bye;
out of the world,
out of the way;
the world forgetting by the world forgot"
[Pope].
snug,
domestic,
stay-at-home.
unsociable;
unsocial,
dissocial†;
inhospitable,
cynical,
inconversable†,
unclubbable,
sauvage [Fr.],
troglodytic.
solitary;
lonely,
lonesome;
isolated,
single.
estranged;
unfrequented;
uninhabitable,
uninhabited;
tenantless;
abandoned;
deserted,
deserted in one's utmost need;
unfriended†;
kithless†,
friendless,
homeless;
lorn†,
forlorn,
desolate.
unvisited,
unintroduced†,
uninvited,
unwelcome;
under a cloud,
left to shift for oneself,
derelict,
outcast.
banished
etc.
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Roget 859:
hopeless,
desperate,
despairing,
gone,
in despair,
au desespoir [Fr.],
forlorn,
desolate;
inconsolable
etc.
(dejected)
837;
broken hearted.
unpromising,
unpropitious;
inauspicious,
ill-omened,
threatening,
clouded over.
out of the question,
not to be thought of;
impracticable
etc.
471;
past hope,
past cure,
past mending,
past recall;
at one's last gasp
etc.
(death)
360;
given up,
given over.
incurable,
cureless,
immedicable,
remediless,
beyond remedy;
incorrigible;
irreparable,
irremediable,
irrecoverable,
irreversible,
irretrievable,
irreclaimable,
irredeemable,
irrevocable;
ruined,
undone;
immitigable.
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Moby thesaurus: abandoned, affording no hope, alone, apathetic, bereft, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, dejected, depressed, deserted, desolate, desole, despairing, desperate, despondent, desponding, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dolorous, down, fatherless, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, grim, heartsick, heartsore, helpless, homeless, hopeless, in despair, inconsolable, joyless, kithless, lonely, lonesome, lost, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, motherless, mournful, neglected, oppressed, outcast, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, pitiful, sad, shunned, sick, sick at heart, solitary, sorrowful, soul-sick, unconsolable, unfriended, unhappy, unhopeful, vain, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched ... show more.
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