Separated vs Forlorn - What's the difference?
separated | forlorn | Related terms |
detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.
(of spouses) estranged; living apart but not divorced.
(separate)
(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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Separated is a related term of forlorn.
As adjectives the difference between separated and forlorn
is that separated is detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart while forlorn is abandoned, left behind, deserted.As verbs the difference between separated and forlorn
is that separated is (separate) while forlorn is (obsolete).separated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
When used in cooking to describe eggs in which the yolk and white have been disjoined from each other, it is more commonly used in the appositive form (two eggs, separated'') than in the usual position for an English adjective (''two separated eggs ).Antonyms
* combined * unified * unitedVerb
(head)Anagrams
* * *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.}}