Deserted; destitute; stripped or deprived; forsaken. Hence, lost; helpless; wretched; solitary. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. To live again in these wild woods forlorn. For here forlorn and lost I tread.

Taken away. Obs. When as night hath us of light forlorn.

Small; despicable; in a ludicrous sense. Forlorn hope, properly, a desperate case; hence in military affairs, a detachment of men appointed to lead in an assault, to storm a counterscarp, enter a breach, or perform other service attended with uncommon peril.9Y

A lost, forsaken, solitary person.