Lorn vs Dorn - What's the difference?
lorn | dorn |
(obsolete) lost, doomed
(archaic) abandoned, lonely, forlorn
* 1874 , , XIX
* 1963': He never found his beloved machine gun. '''Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day. — Thomas Pynchon, ''V.
As an adjective lorn
is lost, doomed.As a noun dorn is
a British ray; the thornback.lorn
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The mighty river flowing dark and deep, (...)
- Is named the River of the Suicides;
- For night by night some lorn wretch overweary,(...)
- Within its cold secure oblivion hides.