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sad, hopeless and/or abandoned- She energized the previously forlorn team.
forlorn = hopeless
- She stood behind the counter with a forlorn look in her eyes.
- 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
- We've been told of children searching forlornly in the smoldering ruins for their dead parents.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- "What could you possibly say to him?" Major Major wondered forlornly.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Madame Zeroni hated to see Elya so forlorn.Louis Sachar -- Holes
- '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
- 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
- The hotel looked old and forlorn and empty, like an abandoned farmhouse outside Fort Dodge.Tim O'Brien -- Going After Cacciato
- Against what evil, against what forlorn love Was this predestined fervor meant?Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- 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
- But instead of feeling relieved, I feel forlorn.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- 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
- [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
- A car alarm echoed forlornly behind them.Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
- The pilot just shakes his head forlornly.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- A single chair stood on the rostrum, looking as forlorn as if someone had left it there and forgotten it.Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
forlorn = hopeless
forlorn = sad, hopeless and/or abandoned
forlornly = sad, hopeless and/or abandoned
forlornly = without hope
forlorn = sad
forlorn = doomed to fail (hopeless)