adjective
- lonely, forsaken, or abandoned
Usage: archaic or poetic; often used in literary contexts
Examples
- The lorn traveler wandered through the empty streets at midnight.
- She felt lorn after her closest friend moved away.
- In the poem, the lorn maiden waits by the window for her lover's return.
- The lorn castle stood abandoned on the hilltop for decades.
- He was a lorn figure, cut off from all human companionship.