forlorn, übersetzung im Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

forlorn
adj

1 miserable, wretched, or cheerless; desolate

2 deserted; forsaken

3 postpositive; foll by: of destitute; bereft
forlorn of hope

4 desperate
the last forlorn attempt
  (Old English forloren lost, from forleosan to lose; related to Old Saxon farliosan, Gothic fraliusan, Greek luein to release)
♦ forlornly  adv
♦ forlornness  n

forlorn hope
n

1 a hopeless or desperate enterprise

2 a faint hope

3 Obsolete a group of soldiers assigned to an extremely dangerous duty
(C16 (in the obsolete sense): changed (by folk etymology) from Dutch verloren hoop lost troop, from verloren, past participle of verliezen to lose + hoop troop (literally: heap))