forlorn


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Synonyms for forlorn

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Synonyms for forlorn

dejected due to the awareness of being alone

having been given up and left alone

having lost all hope

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marked by or showing hopelessness

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Intruding on a forlorn family as they hit rock bottom.
Mick finds a forlorn figure on the stairs and does his best to cheer her up but, after all the lying and cheating she's had to endure, does Sharon really love Phil enough to go through with the wedding?
FORLORN: There was just a lack of belief in what they were doing, and Everton were well set-up to take full advantage.
POSSIBLY a forlorn hope, but on the glorious occasion of the Wales win over England at the Millennium Stadium, my cap, and very nearly my umbrella and myself, was blown off into the Taff as I waited to enter the ground on the stadium side.
I was buying a lottery ticket in the forlorn hope that I might become astoundingly rich.
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Forlorn their hope may be, but like everyone else - apart from the bankers that is - ordinary working people cannot understand why they are penalised in a way that the financial industry is not.
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