forlorn
/fəˈlɔːn/
US pronunciation
American sound/fəˈlɔːn/
fəˈlɔːn
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Clear final sound
fə - ˈlɔːn -> forlorn
Myanmar meaning
(adj) (က) အထီးကျန်ဖြစ်သော။ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့။ အောင်မြင်ရန်မရှိ။ အမှန် ဖြစ်လာ နိုင်ခြေမရှိ။ ဖြစ်လာနိုင်စရာမရှိ။
Full entry
၁။ (က) အထီးကျန်ဖြစ်သော။ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့။ She looked very forlorn standing there in the pouring rain. (ခ) ပစ်စလက်ခတ်ထားသော။ Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.
၂။ အောင်မြင်ရန်မရှိ။ အမှန် ဖြစ်လာ နိုင်ခြေမရှိ။ ဖြစ်လာနိုင်စရာမရှိ။ make a forlorn attempt to lose weight. ❍ She waited in the forlorn hope/ belief that he would come back and marry her one day. forlornly adv
More examples
Synonyms
sad, pitiful, dejected, despondent, unhappy, hopeless, desperate, abandoned, all by one's lonesome, alone, batching it, bereft, blue, by itself/oneself, by oneself, cheerless, comfortless, cynical, defenseless, depressed, deserted, desolate, despairing, destitute, destroyed, disconsolate, down and out, dragging, feebly, forgotten, forsaken, friendless, fruitless, futile, godforsaken, helpless, helplessly, homeless, in solitary, in the dumps, inconsolable, lonely, lonesome, lost, me and my shadow, me myself and I, miserable, neglected, on one's own, oppressed, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable, shag, solitarily, solitary, stag, tragic, traveling light, unaided, unassisted, unescorted, vain, weighed down, widowed, with hands tied, woebegone, wretched
Antonyms
Cross references
Study this word
Pattern match
Example practice
Mini quizWhat is the Myanmar meaning of “forlorn”?
Try to say the meaning first, then reveal the answer.