forlorn
fer-LORNadjMeaning sad and lonely; abandoned
Memory hook for-LORN: left all a-LONE. Everyone has gone home from the playground, and one little teddy bear sits all alone on the bench in the rain. It looks forlorn.
A forlorn teddy bear sat in the rain beside the empty swing.
In context After the carnival packed up and drove away, the field looked forlorn: just trampled grass, a torn ticket and one lonely balloon caught in a fence.
Similar lonely, abandoned, desolate, wretched
Opposite cheerful, joyful
From Old English forloren, “lost, ruined.”