Definitions for forlorn

forlorn for·lorn

Spelling: [fawr-lawrn]
IPA: /fɔrˈlɔrn/

Forlorn is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in forlorn (flnoorr).

Definitions for forlorn

adjective

  1. desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
  2. lonely and sad; forsaken.
  3. expressive of hopelessness; despairing:
  4. bereft; destitute:

Origin of forlorn

before 1150; Middle English foreloren (past participle of forlesen to lose completely), Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan); cognate with Old High German firliosan (German ver

Examples for forlorn

Altogether, the appearance of the individual was forlorn and miserable.

The collapse of the Soviet Empire more than 20 years ago left it, for a time, orphaned and forlorn.

That he might be; but he was not so forlorn as to roam away and leave them together.

He looked as forlorn as might be expected of a retired cop who finds himself the one behind bars.

These men were as forlorn and miserable as my self, death grinning in our faces at every turn.

Today, a forlorn air hangs over Santa Maria degli Angeli, like a graveyard where ghosts are buried.

The roads are forlorn, the landscape barren, the forests menacing.

He could not shake the image of that forlorn, mistreated horse.

She had had a forlorn hope that he would throw down the sheet; but he did not.

There were forlorn hollows under his eyes; now he looked twice his age.

Word Value for forlorn
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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