Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bereft of love or one's lover.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forsaken by one's love; forlorn, pining, or suffering from love.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Forsaken by one's love.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being
lorn bylove . - adjective
Unloved ,bereft oflove . - adjective
Rent andreived of and/or by love.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her music has been described as "lovelorn acoustic guitar pop" by Time Out and Kina has been tabbed as a "rising star" by CosmoGirl.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Exclusive: Craig Wedren's "Are We," Plus Conversations with The Civil Wars and NEeMA Mike Ragogna 2011
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Her music has been described as "lovelorn acoustic guitar pop" by Time Out and Kina has been tabbed as a "rising star" by CosmoGirl.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Exclusive: Craig Wedren's "Are We," Plus Conversations with The Civil Wars and NEeMA Mike Ragogna 2011
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Her music has been described as "lovelorn acoustic guitar pop" by Time Out and Kina has been tabbed as a "rising star" by CosmoGirl.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mike Ragogna 2011
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Brian Hughes of "Again With the Comics" has an advice column called "Ask Golden Age Wonder Woman," in which questions from the lovelorn are answered using actual panels from old issues of Wonder Woman, surely one of the most crypto-fetishistic comics of the Golden Age.
Boing Boing 2008
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Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too.
Archive 2009-02-01 Fresca 2009
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I wonder if his buddies at the wharf called the lovelorn fisherman “Mr. Baiter” behind his back.
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I am a poor, wretched, lovelorn creature; lovelorn, that is all!
Chapter XX. Book IV 1917
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A basket for berries, a horn to call the lovelorn moose through the autumnal woods, a canvas on which to draw the outline of great and memorable fish -- all these and many other indispensable luxuries are stored up for the skilful woodsman in the birch bark.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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Alexander Ignateyevitch used to be called the lovelorn Major, but he never minded.
Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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This theory, while geared toward the single/"lovelorn," holds true to anybody.
Valentine's Day: Even more stuff you didn't know you needed, and a plea to unplug Katie Rogers 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word lovelorn
The visuals for this one are fascinating.
February 13, 2012