Synonyms for forlornness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fawr-lawrn |
| Phonetic Transcription : fɔrˈlɔrn |
Top 10 synonyms for forlornness
- aloneness
- bareness
- blahs
- blandness
- bleakness
- blue devils
- blue funk
- blues
- boringness
- broken heart
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- colorlessness
- dashed hopes
- dejection
- depression
- desert
- desperateness
- despond
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- disheartenment
- dismals
- dispiritedness
- dissolution
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downcastness
- downer
- drabness
- dryness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- extinction
- flatness
- flavorlessness
- forlornness
- friendlessness
- funk
- gloom
- gloominess
- glumness
- grieving
- heavy heart
- insipidity
- insipidness
- isolation
- jejuneness
- joylessness
- letdown
- lifelessness
- listlessness
- loneliness
- lonesomeness
- low-spiritedness
- melancholy
- misery
- moodiness
- mopes
- mournfulness
- mourning
- ordeal
- pain
- poignancy
- remoteness
- ruin
- sadness
- seclusion
- solitariness
- solitude
- sorrow
- sorrowfulness
- the blues
- the dumps
- trial
- tribulation
- unhappiness
- vapidity
- vapidness
- waste
- wildness
- withdrawal
- woe
- wreck
- wretchedness
Définition of forlornness
Origin :- mid-12c., forloren "disgraced, depraved," past participle of obsolete forlesan "be deprived of, lose, abandon," from Old English forleosan "to lose, abandon, let go; destroy, ruin," from for- "completely" + leosan "to lose" (see lose). In the Mercian hymns, Latin perditionis is glossed by Old English forlorenisse.
- Sense of "forsaken, abandoned" is 1530s; that of "wretched, miserable" first recorded 1580s. A common Germanic compound (cf. Old Saxon farilosan, Old Frisian urliasa, Middle Dutch verliesen, Dutch verliezen, Old High German virliosan, German verlieren, Gothic fraliusan "to lose").
- Commonly in forlorn hope (1570s), which is a partial translation of Dutch verloren hoop, in which hoop means "troop, band," literally "heap," and the sense of the whole phrase is of a suicide mission. The phrase is usually used incorrectly in English, and the misuse has colored the sense of forlorn. Related: Forlornly; forlornness.
- As in loneliness : noun isolation
- As in sadness : noun unhappiness, depression
- As in downheartedness : noun gloom
- As in dreariness : noun gloominess
- As in hopelessness : noun despair
- As in desolation : noun uninhabitated area; barrenness
- As in despair : noun depression, hopelessness
- We had subjected ourselves to all this forlornness simply for pleasure.
- Extract from : « In the Wilderness » by Charles Dudley Warner
- He was obsessed by the solitary idea of his own forlornness.
- Extract from : « The Kingdom Round the Corner » by Coningsby Dawson
- The old sense of forlornness, of being alone and uncared for, returned to her.
- Extract from : « Little Lost Sister » by Virginia Brooks
- Though one had a pity for his forlornness, there was still an admiration.
- Extract from : « The Blind Spot » by Austin Hall
- "Troth, it serves me nothing," she said, with a forlornness he could not understand.
- Extract from : « Captain Ravenshaw » by Robert Neilson Stephens
- But there were no tears in her eyes, no forlornness in her voice.
- Extract from : « The Grain Of Dust » by David Graham Phillips
- All about her seemed elastic; depression, fear, forlornness, were withdrawn.
- Extract from : « Shirley » by Charlotte Bront
- Still her despair and forlornness weighed upon her more and more.
- Extract from : « Geoffrey Hampstead » by Thomas Stinson Jarvis
- The forlornness of the bookcase gave a stricken air to the whole room.
- Extract from : « Hilda Lessways » by Arnold Bennett
- They loved to be near one another that their forlornness might pain them less.
- Extract from : « A Love Episode » by Emile Zola
Antonyms for forlornness
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