forlorn

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Abandoned, deserted, left behind.

   “For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.”

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

   “For here forlorn and loſt I tread, / With fainting ſteps and ſlow; / Where wilds immeaſurably ſpread, / Seem lengthening as I go.”

3. sıfat Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.

   “To begin therefore with Traditions, which is your forlorn hope that in the first place we are to set upon: this must I needs tell you before we begin, that you much mistake the matter, if you think that traditions of all sorts promiscuously are struck at by our religion.”

4. isim A forlorn hope.

   “[…] I ordered the forlorns to advance and to march, at their open order, towards the upland, and by this time the tide was upon the ground wee ſtood on: The forlorn were no ſooner advanced a few rods, before there was firing on both ſides; […]”

5. isim A member of a forlorn hope.
6. fiil past participle of forlese.