Adjective

1. lost, doomed
2. abandoned, lonely, forlorn
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XIX

     The mighty river flowing dark and deep, (...)

     Is named the River of the Suicides;

     For night by night some lorn wretch overweary,(...)

     Within its cold secure oblivion hides.

   • 1963: He never found his beloved machine gun. Lorn and drained-nervous, he was fired next day. — Thomas Pynchon, V.