English Dictionary

forlorn

adj

Abandoned, deserted, left behind. / Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken. / Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.

The old, dilapidated house stood forlorn and abandoned on the hill.

意味（1）

Abandoned, deserted, left behind.

For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.

意味（2）

Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.

For here forlorn and loſt I tread, / With fainting ſteps and ſlow; / Where wilds immeaſurably ſpread, / Seem lengthening as I go.

意味（3）

Unlikely to succeed; hopeless.

To begin therefore with Traditions, which is your forlorn hope that in the first place we are to set upon: this must I needs tell you before we begin, that you much mistake the matter, if you think that traditions of all sorts promiscuously are struck at by our religion.