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forlornly

/fawr-lawrn/US // fɔrˈlɔrn //UK // (fəˈlɔːn) //

怅然若失,怅惘地,怅然若失地,惆怅地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
    • : lonely and sad; forsaken.
    • : expressive of hopelessness; despairing: forlorn glances.
    • : bereft; destitute: forlorn of comfort.

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Examples

  • Perseverance, the first multibillion-dollar NASA mission to Mars in nine years, quickly produced two low-resolution images of the landing site — a forlorn landscape pocked with small craters.

  • It’s a wrenching detail, though Fogel goes on to milk it a little too freely—a later shot of the chair, sitting forlorn and empty, probably should have been cut.

  • On busier roads, elderly, scarved women sat by piles of potatoes and onions hoping forlornly for a sale.

  • The meeting wound down forlornly, with Obama attempting to enumerate issues that the two sides had in common.

  • But he was such a forlornly muddy mongrel pup, and so eloquent of tail, that I spoke his name on an impulse, and put out my hand.

  • "I'm afeared, then, I won't be able to claim that there money," he said forlornly.

  • "She didna see me," said Hendry, sitting down forlornly on the table.

  • Margaret knew it all; she read it in Boucher's face, forlornly desperate and livid with rage.

  • It yeas cold and chilly, and they forlornly set out in search of some sort of a conveyance.