Abandoned vs. Forlorn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Abandoned and Forlorn
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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.
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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No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted.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
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