forlornadjective
uk/fəˈlɔːn/us/fɚˈlɔːrn/forlorn adjective (SAD)
literary alone and unhappy; left alone and not cared for:
She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.
literary A forlorn place feels empty and sad:
This forlorn industrial town has very high unemployment.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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forlorn adjective (UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED)
[ before noun ] very unlikely to be achieved or to succeed:
Their only hope now is that the outside world will intervene but it is an increasingly forlorn hope.
She appeared on daytime TV in a forlorn attempt to persuade the public of her innocence.
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Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- hopeless
- lose
- negative
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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forlornly
adverb uk/fəˈlɔːn.li/us/fɚˈlɔːrn.li/
She sat forlornly (= alone and unhappy) looking out to sea.