What's the difference between desperate and forlorn?

Desperate


Definition:

  • (a.) Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
  • (a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
  • (a.) Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
  • (a.) Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
  • (n.) One desperate or hopeless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (3) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
  • (4) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
  • (5) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
  • (6) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
  • (7) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (8) 9.23pm GMT Expect the reporters to get even more speculative and desperate from hereon in.
  • (9) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
  • (10) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
  • (11) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
  • (12) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
  • (13) When I heard it, I thought of Sherpa as a first name, like the Edmund in Edmund Hillary, rather than as a description, like the Desperate in Desperate Dan.
  • (14) Clark said he first met Brown in November 2004, just a few months before the general election when the party was in desperate need of funds.
  • (15) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
  • (16) Patel once wrote: “At one end of this world, there is one woman who desperately needs a baby and cannot have her own child.
  • (17) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
  • (18) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
  • (19) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
  • (20) "I desperately don't want this to suppress people's choice and freedom," says Stansfield.

Forlorn


Definition:

  • () of Forlese
  • (v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost.
  • (v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate.
  • (n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person.
  • (n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other side of the square is a forlorn half-built mosque, abandoned for lack of funds, sprouting grass from its foundations.
  • (2) As at the hospital, there was a forlorn air about Katine primary school the day we called in.
  • (3) The stadium was duly dotted with forlorn patches of brightly colored camp t-shirts whose inhabitants spent the game wilting off their seats in temperatures which stood at 101 degrees before kick off.
  • (4) Such views are increasingly common all over Detroit, the forlorn former capital of America's car industry and now a by-word for calamitous urban decline.
  • (5) Up to 15 Tory MPs, including the father of the house of commons Sir Peter Tapsell, spoke in support of Mitchell who was seen to cut a forlorn figure when he took his traditional place close to Cameron for the first session of prime minister's questions since he swore at police.
  • (6) Diego Forlan would have been forlorn to see his shot miss the target.
  • (7) He and Michael Bradley, in an advanced midfield role, found neat touches and space to trouble the Turkish defence and bring Jozy Altidore into the game as something other than the forlorn lone striker he can be in a 4-2-3-1.
  • (8) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
  • (9) Trump and Ryan could turn to the Democrats for support but the president is such a polarising figure that this seems a forlorn hope.
  • (10) The latest piece, by Turner-nominated sculptor and installation artists Cornelia Parker, is a mocked-up photo showing Gormley's famous Angel of the North sculpture leaning at a forlorn angle with a symbolically clipped wing.
  • (11) It is somehow forlorn and vulnerable and desperate and defiant all at once.
  • (12) It was a misjudgment in the heat of the moment.” The forlorn-looking Formula One world champion muttered: “I can’t really express the way I’m feeling at the moment so I won’t attempt to.
  • (13) Nadal simply had no answer to Murray’s variety and consistency, cutting an increasingly forlorn figure as he was repeatedly subjected to the rare indignity of being outrallied and out-thought from the back of the court.
  • (14) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
  • (15) There are elements of Andrei Tarkovsky movies – a forlorn wasteland littered with high-tech wreckage.
  • (16) I was in Peterborough recently, and the mood of dejection was so strong as to feel contagious, crystallised by the obligatory empty shops, forlorn young people looking for dependable work that never comes, and the issue of immigration becoming more divisive than ever.
  • (17) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
  • (18) Back in Whitstable the kite-surfers were having a ball, leaping high above the sea in the strong gusts of wind, their acrobatics watched forlornly by the seagulls, waiting to scavenge discarded chip wrappers that would never come.
  • (19) A rather forlorn-looking cup of tepid water into which the bag has yet to be introduced.
  • (20) Nor on the forlorn hope that punishing the Russian leadership, still less the Russian people, with sanctions could cause the Crimean annexation to be reversed; it will not be.