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Pining, perhaps
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lovelorn
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Wikipedia
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Lovelorn is a 2005 Turkish drama film , written and directed by Yavuz Turgul , starring Şener Şen as a teacher recently returned to Istanbul who must protect a nightclub singer from her violent ex-husband. The film, which went on nationwide general release ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Being lorn by love. 2 unloved, bereft of love. 3 rent and reived of and/or by love.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After a week of feeling lovelorn and dreamy he decided to contact her. ▪ But her lovelorn millionaire husband, Bill, had spent more than Pounds 50,000 on private detectives to track her down. ▪ Plump Beryl who talks to the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lovelorn \Love"lorn`\, a. Forsaken by one's love. The lovelorn nightingale. --Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also love-lorn , "pining for love," 1630s, from love (n.) + lorn . Perhaps coined by Milton.
Usage examples of lovelorn.
Maguire brought great sweetness and vulnerability to the nerdy, lovelorn loser who comes of age as a superhero.
Mardasper liked to be up on the crumbling battlements to see those sunsets, murmuring what words he could remember of lovelorn ballads and the chanted lays of the passing of heroes.
At once five startled ducks took flight and a lovelorn toad fell backwards off his lilypad and sank into the darkness of the pond.
I did not leave this question unanswered, and continuing the amorous discourse with animation I won a sigh and a lovelorn glance.
With a glance at the lady which was meant to be lovelorn, but which must have been extremely languid in my exhausted state, I said,-- "You see, Madam, that I am not the more obstinate of the two.
The last thing he wanted was a lovelorn Petra making googly eyes at him.
No lovelorn, aging female would lay into her young lover that way in public.