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Scorned vs Forlorn - What's the difference?

scorned | forlorn |

As adjectives the difference between scorned and forlorn

is that scorned is hated, despised, or avoided while forlorn is abandoned, left behind, deserted.

As verbs the difference between scorned and forlorn

is that scorned is (scorn) while forlorn is (obsolete).

scorned

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hated, despised, or avoided.
  • :Zucchini and cauliflower seem to be widely scorned vegetables.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (scorn)

    • Related terms

    * hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

    forlorn

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • 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.}}

    Derived terms

    * forlorn hope * forlornness * forlornly

    Synonyms

    * * (miserable ) forsaken