forsaken
past participle of forsake.
deserted; abandoned; forlorn: an old, forsaken farmhouse.
Origin of forsaken
1Other words from forsaken
- for·sak·en·ly, adverb
- for·sak·en·ness, noun
- self-for·sak·en, adjective
- un·for·sak·en, adjective
Words Nearby forsaken
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How to use forsaken in a sentence
With 4,000 deaths in West Africa, the number of forsaken children is exploding.
South Park is not just funnier than any of those shows—it refuses to let us escape the god-forsaken world in which we live.
Global Cures calls these forsaken therapies “financial orphans.”
Her departure from music left her fans bereft: "Why has she forsaken us?"
Even his famous last words on the cross—“My God, my God, why hast though forsaken me?”
In spite of this, the garden studio was not wholly forsaken, and nearly every day she accomplished something there.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThere shall be a crying for wine in the streets: all mirth is forsaken: the joy of the earth is gone away.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousFor the house is forsaken, the multitude of the city is left, darkness and obscurity are come upon its dens for ever.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousReverend McCarthy, one of the oldest, and regarded as one of the strongest, one of the ablest ministers to such a forsaken charge.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxThe covenant is often represented as forsaken both as a covenant and as a law; but is exhibited as gone into only as a covenant.
The Ordinance of Covenanting | John Cunningham
British Dictionary definitions for forsaken
/ (fəˈseɪkən) /
the past participle of forsake
completely deserted or helpless; abandoned
Derived forms of forsaken
- forsakenly, adverb
- forsakenness, noun
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