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Synonyms & Antonyms of forlorn
1
feeling unhappiness
- she was forlorn when she found out the trip had been cancelled
Synonyms for forlorn
- bad,
- blue,
- brokenhearted,
- cast down,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- disconsolate,
- doleful,
- down,
- down in the mouth,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- droopy,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- hangdog,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- heavyhearted,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
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2
sad from lack of companionship or separation from others
- a forlorn wanderer far from home
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3
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
- a forlorn little town whose brief economic boom ended decades ago
Synonyms for forlorn
- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- solemn,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
Words Related to forlorn
- blue,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- down,
- droopy,
- hangdog,
- inconsolable,
- low,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- sad,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful
- dim,
- discomfiting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- upsetting
- dour,
- grim,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- lowery
- (also loury),
- menacing,
- negative,
- oppressive,
- threatening
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4
feeling or showing no hope
- the forlorn expression of a candidate who knows that he hasn't a prayer of winning the election
Synonyms for forlorn
Words Related to forlorn
- blue,
- brokenhearted,
- crestfallen,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- disconsolate,
- doleful,
- down,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- hangdog,
- heartbroken,
- heartsick,
- heartsore,
- inconsolable,
- joyless,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- mournful,
- sad,
- saddened,
- sorrowful,
- sorry,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- depressing,
- desolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- funereal
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The first known use of forlorn was before the 12th century
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