Adjective

(en-adj)

Abandoned, left behind, deserted.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn .

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

Miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.

* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

For here forlorn and lost I tread.

* (1796-1859)

The condition of the besieged in the mean time was forlorn in the extreme.

* (Mowbray Thomson) (1832-1917)

She cherished the forlorn hope that he was still living in captivity

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=6, title= 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.}}

Adjective

(-)

Having been or happened in the far past.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.