lorn

[lawrn] / lɔrn /

ADJECTIVE

lonely

Synonyms

WEAK

abandoned alone apart by oneself comfortless companionless deserted desolate destitute disconsolate down empty estranged forlorn forsaken godforsaken homeless isolated left lone lonesome outcast reclusive rejected renounced secluded single solitary troglodytic unattended unbefriended uncherished unsocial withdrawn

ADJECTIVE

abandoned

Synonyms

WEAK

alone bereft cast aside cast away derelict deserted desolate discarded dissipated dropped dumped eighty-sixed eliminated empty forgotten forlorn forsaken given up godforsaken jilted left left in the cold left in the lurch neglected outcast passed up pigeon-holed rejected relinquished shunned side-tracked sidelined unoccupied vacant vacated

Example Sentences

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After her granny's funeral, Lorn arrived home to a Christmas card from her - post-marked on the day she died - with £5 in it.

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Among the places Lorn has left the trinkets to remember her granny are Lochaline, on the Morven peninsula, where Mrs Fletcher lived at the end of her life and where she is buried with her husband, John.

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When Lorn Pearson was a child she was fascinated by the big wooden elephant in her granny's house in the Scottish Highlands.

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In 2002 Lorn - by then a student in Glasgow - found a small white elephant in a gift shop and sent it to her granny for Christmas.

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Lorn asked her aunt if she could unwrap it and put it in the coffin with her granny and she agreed.

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