lovelorn
US/lʌvˈlɔɹn/
lovelorn adjective: abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.
Adjective
lovelorn (comparative more lovelorn, superlative most lovelorn)
- Abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.
- Ye lovesick bards! repay her scorn for scorn; / Ye artists lovelorn! madmen that ye are, / Make your best bow to her and bid adieu / Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.c. 1819-1820, John Keats, On Fame
- A soft-breasted bird from the sea / Fell in love with the light-house flame; / And it wheeled round the tower on its airiest wing, / And floated and cried like a lovelorn thing;1890, John Boyle O'Reilly, “A Tragedy”, in In Bohemia
- Unloved, bereft of love.
- Synonyms:
- loveless
Noun
lovelorn (plural lovelorns)
- A person who is lovelorn.
- And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.1984, Alan Rudolph, Choose Me (motion picture), spoken by Nancy (Geneviève Bujold)
lovelorn meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Vietnamese
lovelorn in Bengali
- lovelorn
- প্রেমপীড়িত prempiṛito
lovelorn in Malayalam
- lovesick, unrequited in love, crossed in love
- പ്രണയനെെരാശ്യമുള്ള, സ്മരാതുര, സ്മരാകുല, സ്മരോത്സുക, പ്രേമദാഹിയായ, മോഹാകുലനായ
lovelorn in Kannada
- ವಿರಹಾರ್ತ, ವಿರಹವ್ಯಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿರುವ, ವಿಪ್ರಲಂಭದ
lovelorn in Vietnamese
- unloved, bereft of love
- phụ tình
Synonyms of lovelorn
Forms of lovelorn
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more lovelorn |
| superlative | most lovelorn |
| Noun | |
| plural | lovelorns |
Origin of lovelorn
From love + lorn.
Words formed from lovelorn
Questions about lovelorn
- What does lovelorn mean?
- Lovelorn means abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.
- What is lovelorn in Bengali?
- Lovelorn in Bengali is প্রেমপীড়িত (prempiṛito). See Lovelorn meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is lovelorn?
- Lovelorn can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce lovelorn?
- Lovelorn is pronounced /lʌvˈlɔɹn/ (US).
Words near lovelorn in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lovelorn (page history and authors); প্রেমপীড়িত (Bengali) (page history and authors); lovelorn (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lovelorn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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