Thesaurus / forlornness
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synonyms for forlornness
- anguish
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- gloom
- melancholy
- misery
- pain
- sorrow
- dejection
- disheartenment
- ordeal
- trial
- tribulation
- wretchedness
- dashed hopes
- blues
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despondence
- despondency
- dispiritedness
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dumps
- funk
- gloominess
- glumness
- low-spiritedness
- melancholy
- mournfulness
- sadness
- unhappiness
- blandness
- boringness
- colorlessness
- depression
- drabness
- dryness
- dullness
- flatness
- flavorlessness
- gloom
- insipidity
- insipidness
- jejuneness
- joylessness
- lifelessness
- melancholy
- sadness
- vapidity
- vapidness
- anguish
- desperation
- despondency
- discouragement
- gloom
- melancholy
- misery
- sorrow
- dejection
- despondence
- disheartenment
- ordeal
- pain
- trial
- tribulation
- wretchedness
- dashed hopes
- desperateness
- despond
- alienation
- desolation
- heartache
- solitude
- aloneness
- friendlessness
- lonesomeness
- remoteness
- seclusion
- solitariness
- withdrawal
- anguish
- grief
- heartache
- heartbreak
- hopelessness
- melancholy
- misery
- mourning
- poignancy
- sorrow
- blahs
- bleakness
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- dispiritedness
- distress
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downer
- dysphoria
- funk
- gloominess
- letdown
- listlessness
- moodiness
- mopes
- mournfulness
- sorrowfulness
- tribulation
- woe
- blue devils
- blue funk
- broken heart
- dismals
- downcastness
- grieving
- heavy heart
- the blues
- the dumps
On this page you'll find 192 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to forlornness, such as: bleakness, devastation, isolation, loneliness, solitude, and bareness.
antonyms for forlornness
MOST RELEVANT
- cheer
- comfort
- contentment
- encouragement
- happiness
- joy
- pleasure
- peace
- cheerfulness
- confidence
- faith
- hopefulness
- joyfulness
- trust
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How to use forlornness in a sentence
"I don't know more than half the population of New England," said Dan, with apparent levity, but real forlornness.
APRIL HOPESWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSShe had clung to his arm with a tragic forlornness that seemed to leave her very wan and helpless.
THE SHADOWARTHUR STRINGERMy grief and forlornness have made a strange alteration in my former feelings about his coming back.
THE QUEEN OF HEARTSWILKIE COLLINSWhen they met he yielded to an impulse which the invalid's forlornness inspired, and went on to see him off.
THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD, COMPLETEWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSAt length Ellis came bustling along; and even she was a welcome sight to poor Morag in her forlornness.
MORAGJANET MILNE RAEShe did not know why, but all at once a terrible feeling of utter forlornness seized her.
NORTH OF FIFTY-THREEBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRNewman only half understood it, but it amused him, and the old man's decent forlornness appealed to his democratic instincts.
THE AMERICANHENRY JAMESTheir lineaments and their gait show forth a ghastly forlornness that excites pity and despair.
THE RECONSTRUCTED SCHOOLFRANCIS B. PEARSONFrom the garden, which lay at the side and behind it, it showed all of its forlornness and few of its possibilities.
MRS. RED PEPPERGRACE S. RICHMONDWhat a pity that such a picture should fade, and perplex the beholder with such splendor shining through such forlornness!
PASSAGES FROM THE FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTEBOOKS, VOLUME 1NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEWORDS RELATED TO FORLORNNESS
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