1 (of a person) appearing lonely and unhappy:
She looked so forlorn, standing there in the pouring rain.
2 (of a place) not cared for and with no people in it:
Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.
3 unlikely to succeed, come true, etc:
She waited in the forlorn hope that he would one day come back to her. * His father smiled weakly in a forlorn attempt to reassure him that everything was all right.
forlornly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for forlorn is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is forlorn a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, forlorn is tagged as adjective.
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