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lovelorn

adj
/lʌvˈlɔɹn/US

Etymology

From love + lorn.

  1. derived from *lewH-✻ — “to cut, sever; to separate; to loosen; to lose”
  2. derived from *leusaną✻ — “to lose”
  3. inherited from *galuzanaz✻
  4. inherited from *loren✻
  5. inherited from lorn
  6. compounded as lovelorn — “love + lorn”

Definitions

  1. Abandoned or forsaken by one's lover

    Abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.

    • Ye lovesick bards! repay her scorn for scorn; / Ye artists lovelorn! madmen that ye are, / Make your best bow to her and bid adieu / Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.
    • A soft-breasted bird from the sea / Fell in love with the light-house flame; / And it wheeled round the tower on its airiest wing, / And floated and cried like a lovelorn thing;

  2. Unloved, bereft of love.

  3. A person who is lovelorn.

    • And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA