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

(-)

Solitary; having no companion.

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*(William Shenstone) (1714–1763)

*:When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.

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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.

Sole; being the only one of a type.

Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.

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*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

*:By a lone well a lonelier column rears.

(lb) Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.

(lb) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.

*Collection of Records (1642)

*:Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.