forlorn
adjective
desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
forlornness
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a word derived from
forlorn.
Example Sentences
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Two artists who move in disparate circles reminded us of what it means for a song to capture a common forlornness.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2024
There is a forlornness to the bungalow, which the owner seems to have set up initially as a family home, with its paint chipping in several places.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023
Cobbled together from found objects — a lamp with a crooked shade, rusty tools, a shopping cart commandeered as an operating table — it imbues the site of an at-home abortion with almost unbearable forlornness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2022
But at Cannes, amid the aftershocks of the election, he said he was overcome by a profound forlornness.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2018
A forlornness would descend on her like a shroud then and would lift only when Eid had passed.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
