Disheartening vs Forlorn - What's the difference?
disheartening | forlorn |
(obsolete)
Abandoned, left behind, deserted.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.
* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
* (1796-1859)
* (Mowbray Thomson) (1832-1917)
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As adjectives the difference between disheartening and forlorn
is that disheartening is causing to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy; scare; discourage while forlorn is abandoned, left behind, deserted.As verbs the difference between disheartening and forlorn
is that disheartening is while forlorn is (obsolete).forlorn
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en-adj)- Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn .
- Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
- For here forlorn and lost I tread.
- The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme.
- She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living in captivity
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}
