Какво означава forlorn на английски?

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forlorn Значение & определение

0 alone and unhappy; left alone and not cared for:
- She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.
- This forlorn industrial town has very high unemployment.
1 very unlikely to be achieved or to succeed:
- Their only hope now is that the outside world will intervene but it is an increasingly forlorn hope.
- She appeared on daytime TV in a forlorn attempt to persuade the public of her innocence.
2 looking or feeling alone and sad because you need help but do not expect to get it:
- As I left little Bobby on his first day of school, he gave me such a forlorn look.

The final two volumes probably represent a forlorn attempt to continue the publication with support from an alternative source of funding.
All this may sound utopian from the viewpoint of natural language processing and it certainly contrasts with the rather forlorn views currently prevalent among researchers.
Of all spots on the bleached and desolate upland this was the most forlorn.
Evacuees frequently began their journey early in the morning at a railway station thronged with crowds of forlorn and confused children, clutching suitcase and gas mask.
Instead, a large number of them are passing their lives in a forlorn condition in camps, railway wagons, huts, in filth, squalor and dirt and in subhuman conditions.
He is saying, in effect, we do not battle for success; the forlorn hope is the something that inspires us.
He was told that he was a forlorn figure.
Our defiance may be what sometimes used to be called a forlorn hope, but defiance it remains.