Forlorn vs Depressed - What's the difference?
forlorn | depressed | Related terms |
(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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unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
Suffering from clinical depression.
Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
Forlorn is a related term of depressed.
As verbs the difference between forlorn and depressed
is that forlorn is (obsolete) while depressed is (depress).As adjectives the difference between forlorn and depressed
is that forlorn is abandoned, left behind, deserted while depressed is unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent.forlorn
English
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.}}