Meaning & use
Lorn
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Forsaken, abandoned, or desolate, especially through the loss of a companion.
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The poem describes a lorn traveler wandering the empty moor.
She felt utterly lorn after her closest friend moved abroad.
A note on using this word
Now chiefly literary or archaic, "lorn" survives today mostly inside the compound "forlorn."
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Words with an opposite meaning
accompaniedcherished
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