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

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.

a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house

* Bible, Jer. ix. 11

I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.

* Tennyson

And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.

Barren and lifeless.

Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.

desolate altars

Dismal or dreary.

Sad, forlorn and hopeless.

He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.

* Keble

voice of the poor and desolate