What does lorn mean?
Lorn means (obsolete) Doomed; lost..
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/lɔːn/ · adjective
(obsolete) Doomed; lost..
I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.
Yet, trust me, Memory's warmest sighs / Are often breathed in moments lorn— / And many a feeling thought will rise / And in the bosom die unborn.
The mighty river flowing dark and deep, / With ebb and flood from the remote sea-tides / Vague-sounding through the City's sleepless sleep, / Is named the River of the Suicides; / For night by night some lorn wretch overweary, / And shuddering from the future yet more dreary, / Within its cold secure oblivion hides.
He never found his beloved machine gun. Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day.
Use lorn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lorn means (obsolete) Doomed; lost..
Common synonyms include forlorn, desolate, forsaken, godforsaken.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.
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