adjective. undefined

adjective. Abandoned, deserted, or desolate.

adjective. Sad or lonely, especially from being deserted or abandoned.

adjective. Suggesting or characterized by sadness or loneliness.

adjective. Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition.

adjective. Bereft or deprived.

adjective. Nearly hopeless; desperate.

Lost; deserted; forsaken; abandoned.

Hence Without help or succor; helpless; wretched; miserable.

Small; despicable: in a ludicrous sense.

Deprived; bereft; destitute.

Synonyms Friendless, miserable, comfortless, disconsolate, woebegone, abject, pitiable.

noun. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

noun. A forlorn hope; an advanced body of troops; a vanguard.

noun. A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.

noun. A forlorn hope; a vanguard.

adjective. Deserted; abandoned; lost.

adjective. Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.

adjective. a body of men (called in F. enfants perdus, in G. verlornen posten) selected, usually from volunteers, to attempt a breach, scale the wall of a fortress, or perform other extraordinarily perilous service; also, a desperate case or enterprise.

verb. Past participle of forlese

adjective. abandoned, left behind, deserted

adjective. miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.

adjective. marked by or showing hopelessness

"PREVIOUS to the departure of Captain Overbury, Charlotte had solicited Mrs. Danby to reside entirely at her house, as long as she should be compelled to sustain what she termed her forlorn situation; and that lady, having readily acceded to the proposal, had wholly quitted her own habitation, and was now a constant resident with her daughter-in-law. —"

forlorn boys  forlorn hope  

hopeless  

forlorn hope  forlornly  forlornness  

Born  Horn  Horne  Lorne  Thorn  

bleak  dejected  depress  desolate  frail  

abandoned  abandoned  abject  affording no hope  alone