Forlorn vs Defected - What's the difference?
forlorn | defected |
(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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A fault or malfunction.
* Macaulay
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The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
* Davies
(math) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military organisation or political party.
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As verbs the difference between forlorn and defected
is that forlorn is past participle of lang=en while defected is past tense of defect.As an adjective forlorn
is abandoned, left behind, deserted.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.}}
Derived terms
* forlorn hope * forlornness * forlornlySynonyms
* * (miserable ) forsakendefected
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Verb
(head)defect
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(wikipedia defect)Noun
(en noun)- a defect''' in the ear or eye; a '''defect''' in timber or iron; a '''defect of memory or judgment
- Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects .
- Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied.
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* See alsoVerb
(en verb)British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect . In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”