MEANING
Unhappy because your love is unreturned, lost, or separated from you.
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- lovelorn poet
- lovelorn yearning
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The lovelorn musician kept requesting the song they had once danced to.
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Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more lovelorn; superlative most lovelorn when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.
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