Definition of lovelorn
: bereft of love or of a lover
- letters from lovelorn soldiers
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Galás burrowed into the lovelorn lyrics and emoted with the exasperated cadences of someone being buried alive.
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Yet with spring coming earlier, female bees are now emerging sooner and luring the male bees away from the lovelorn orchid, according to a 2014 study from Britain.
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Yet with spring coming earlier, female bees are now emerging sooner and luring the male bees away from the lovelorn orchid, according to a 2014 study from Britain.
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Sawyer comes to believe that one of the hospital orderlies, George (Joshua Leonard), is in fact David Striner, the creepy lovelorn stalker who caused her to flee from Boston.
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Del Toro’s movie, about a mute, lovelorn cleaning woman at a secret government research facility who falls in love with a gill man kidnapped from his South American home, is set in Baltimore.
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Miramar — with lead singers from Puerto Rico and Tennessee and a Chilean-American keyboardist and composer — devoted itself to urbanely lovelorn Puerto Rican-style boleros, some vintage and some written by group members.
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For the past nine years, Romeo has been emitting plaintive mating calls, but scientists fear that there are no mates left for the lovelorn amphibian.
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After publication of the book, whose lovelorn protagonist takes his own life, there occurred an extraordinary outbreak of similar suicides all over Europe.
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First Known Use of lovelorn
1637
LOVELORN Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of lovelorn for English Language Learners
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: unhappy because of love : feeling love for someone who does not feel the same way
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