Ask Difference

Abandoned vs. Forlorn — What's the Difference?

Abandoned vs. Forlorn — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Abandoned and Forlorn

ADVERTISEMENT

Compare with Definitions

Abandoned

Having been deserted or left
An abandoned car
Abandoned pets

Forlorn

Abandoned, deserted, or desolate
"my high school chums ... enjoying cider and doughnuts ... while I was trapped up on that forlorn mountain" (Howard Frank Mosher).

Abandoned

Unrestrained; uninhibited
A wild, abandoned dance

Forlorn

Sad or lonely, especially from being deserted or abandoned
"waved them goodbye from the door like forlorn parents waving off a honeymoon couple" (Anne Bartlett).

Abandoned

Deserted; forsaken.
ADVERTISEMENT

Forlorn

Suggesting or characterized by sadness or loneliness
The forlorn whistle of a train in the night.

Abandoned

Exuberantly enthusiastic.

Forlorn

Wretched or pitiful in appearance or condition
People living in forlorn shacks.

Abandoned

Recklessly unrestrained.

Forlorn

Bereft or deprived
Forlorn of all hope.

Abandoned

Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked.

Forlorn

Nearly hopeless; desperate
A forlorn acknowledgment of failure.

Abandoned

No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.

Forlorn

Abandoned, deserted, left behind.

Abandoned

Free from constraint; uninhibited.

Forlorn

Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.

Abandoned

(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

Forlorn

Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.

Abandoned

Simple past tense and past participle of abandon

Forlorn

A forlorn hope.

Abandoned

Forsaken, deserted.

Forlorn

A member of a forlorn hope.

Abandoned

Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain.
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.

Forlorn

(obsolete) forlese.

Abandoned

No longer inhabited;
Weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse

Forlorn

Deserted; abandoned; lost.
Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn.
Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.

Abandoned

Left desolate or empty;
An abandoned child
Their deserted wives and children
An abandoned shack
Deserted villages

Forlorn

Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
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.

Abandoned

Free from constraint;
An abandoned sadness born of grief

Forlorn

A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
Forced to live in Scotland a forlorn.

Forlorn

A forlorn hope; a vanguard.
Our forlorn of horse marched within a mile of the enemy.

Forlorn

Pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
Desolate and despairing
Left forlorn

Forlorn

Marked by or showing hopelessness;
The last forlorn attempt
A forlorn cause

Share Your Discovery

Share via Social Media
Embed This Content
Embed Code
Share Directly via Messenger
Link
Previous Comparison
Healthy vs. Normal
Next Comparison
Ratten vs. Ratter

Popular Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

New Comparisons

Trending Terms