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Definition of Lovelorn
1. Adjective. Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love.
Definition of Lovelorn
1. a. Forsaken by one's love.
Definition of Lovelorn
1. Adjective. Being lorn by love. ¹
2. Adjective. Unloved, bereft of love. ¹
3. Adjective. Rent and reived of and/or by love. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lovelorn
1. not loved [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lovelorn
Literary usage of Lovelorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"THE LAY OF THE lovelorn /"COMRADES, you may pass the rosy. With I permission of
the chair, ^•^ I shall leave you for a little, for I 'd like to take the air ..."
2. Kate Greenaway by Marion Harry Spielmann, George Somes Layard (1905)
"lovelorn swain piping to his ridiculous love (p. 279) : a drawing From a Letter
to Ruskin. which Phiz might have been willing to acknowledge ; or, again, ..."
3. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"The lovelorn Swain's Return.— From Lille to Ghent. — King of Kings. — His Serene
Highness in London. — " Le Petit Guizot." — The Lover a Councillor of State ..."
4. The Land of the Morning: An Account of Japan and Its People by William Gray Dixon (1882)
"Nara: — A lovelorn Maiden — Deer Park — Daibutsu—Ancient Pine—Dolls—The Capital
in the Eighth Century AD—Spirit of Old Japan— Poem—Buddhist Prayer ..."
5. New Folklore Researches: Greek Folk Poesy by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1896)
"... and do not thou betray me; And I for thee my life will give, I'll give thee
all my weapons !' THE lovelorn ..."
6. The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting by Edward Avery McIlhenny, Charles L. Jordan, Robert Wilson Shufeldt (1914)
"CHAPTER XIII CALLING UP THE lovelorn GOBBLER THERE is a wide difference between
the old gobbler and the young gobbler, and the tactics to be employed in ..."
7. The Golden Violet: With Its Tales of Romance and Chivalry ; and Other Poems by L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) (1827)
"... Then was it soft and low, as it brought The depths of the maiden's lovelorn
thought:— Harp of Erin ! hath song a tone Not to thy gifted numbers known ? ..."
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