lovelorn
Aching for another
Lovelorn describes someone suffering from unrequited or lost love—pining for someone who doesn't return their affection or mourning a relationship that has ended.
The word has a literary, somewhat old-fashioned flavor: a lovelorn teenager writing poetry, lovelorn letters never sent.
It suggests romantic misery that's almost theatrical in its intensity.
Aching with prolonged desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- spurnedRejected with contempt
- rejectedRefused or turned away
jilted · unreciprocated · one-sided · hopeless · unattainable · unreturned · sighing · unfulfilled
Deep emotional distress
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- forlornSad and abandoned
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
woeful · mournful · crestfallen · dejected · wistful · pensive · doleful · inconsolable
Wanting companionship
- lonesomeSad from isolation
- aloneWithout others present
- isolatedSeparated from others
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
abandoned · forsaken · estranged · single · unattached · companionless · desolate · pining
pining
Aching with prolonged desire
rejected · jilted · unreciprocated · one-sided · hopeless · unattainable · unreturned · sighing · unfulfilled · ignored
heartache
Deep emotional distress
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- forlornSad and abandoned
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
despondent · woeful · mournful · crestfallen · dejected · wistful · pensive · doleful · inconsolable · bereft
lonely
Wanting companionship
solitary · abandoned · forsaken · estranged · single · unattached · companionless · desolate · pining · lonesomeness
sweetheart
Affectionate name for beloved
smitten · enamored · infatuated · devotion · affection · ardor · passion · tender · Cupid · heartstrings
sonnet
Fourteen-line metered poem
lament · elegy · troubadour · serenade · lovesong · Cyrano · Ophelia · courtly · romantic · epistolary
- heartbreakheartache, broken heart, heartbreak, dumping, breakup
- romantic loveinfatuation, crush, lovesickness, limerence, adoration
- heartacheheartache, heartbreak, lovesickness, pining, yearning
- Lovesickheartsick, pining, yearning, infatuated, smitten
- melodramatichistrionic, theatrical, overwrought, exaggerated, dramatic
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken