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Definition

sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned

forlorn = hopeless

forlorn = hopeless

This was a forlorn hope — he was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

forlorn = sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned

One seems so forlorn without them.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
We've been told of children searching forlornly in the smoldering ruins for their dead parents.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

forlornly = sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned

"What could you possibly say to him?" Major Major wondered forlornly.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

forlornly = without hope

And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

forlorn = pitiful

forlorn = sad

'No,' said Peter, rather touched by this devotion; 'it's a forlorn hope, and I'm going to lead it.'
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
The girls followed him as gallant soldiers might follow the leader of a forlorn hope.
Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children

forlorn = doomed to fail (hopeless)

He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
She sounds so forlorn and sorrowful that Mrs. Livingston cannot hold on to her fury.
Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
Wandering lost and forlorn through the Prince's garden was Fezzik, leading the four giant whites.
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
Against what evil, against what forlorn love Was this predestined fervor meant?
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The hotel looked old and forlorn and empty, like an abandoned farmhouse outside Fort Dodge.
Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
I looked around for Miss Peregrine and saw her perched forlornly on the edge of Adam's crater.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
He stood there, seeming smaller than before, slumped and forlorn as though he were a doll that had lost some of its sawdust.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
But instead of feeling relieved, I feel forlorn.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
[Mrs Warren, silenced for a moment, looks forlornly at Vivie, who waits, secretly hoping that the combat is over.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
The pilot just shakes his head forlornly.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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