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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lovelorn
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 office cactus is lovelorn, it is revealed.
▪ She did not know what the message was: Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma.
▪ The lovelorn giant knew Galatea would never have him; his case was hopeless.
▪ The religious life was well known for providing consolation for the lovelorn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lovelorn

Lovelorn \Love"lorn`\, a. Forsaken by one's love.

The lovelorn nightingale.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lovelorn

also love-lorn, "pining for love," 1630s, from love (n.) + lorn. Perhaps coined by Milton.

Wiktionary
lovelorn

a. 1 Being lorn by love. 2 unloved, bereft of love. 3 rent and reived of and/or by love.

WordNet
lovelorn

adj. unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love [syn: bereft, unbeloved]

Wikipedia
Lovelorn

Lovelorn is the debut studio album by the Norwegian/ German symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes, released in 2004. Almost all vocals on the album are by Liv Kristine, but there are also some death growls by Alexander Krull.

Lovelorn (film)

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 across Turkey on , won awards at film festivals in Antalya, Palm Springs and New York.

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.