Emotions
Synonyms for forlorn
Synonyms for forlorn: dejected and woebegone. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for forlorn
Interchangeable with forlorn in this sense
Audited under forlorn's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one forlorn carries in that sense.
- dejectedadjective, in the sense "pitifully sad and lonely, as if abandoned"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name forlorn as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- woebegonewoebegone is an adjective in the sense "in a state of sadness or misery, looking sorrowful"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under forlorn and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
pitifully sad and lonely, as if abandoned
The forlorn puppy sat alone by the empty house, waiting for its owners to return.
The true synonym
dejected
Same sentence, swapped: The dejected puppy sat alone by the empty house, waiting for its owners to return.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot forlorn is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- playful
- curious
- proud
Where forlorn turns up in the game
forlorn is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play forlorn
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so forlorn reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from emotions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. forlorn carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.