alone vs forlorn

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

forlorn

adj
  • Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken. 

  • Abandoned, deserted, left behind. 

  • Unlikely to succeed; hopeless. 

noun
  • A forlorn hope. 

  • A member of a forlorn hope. 

How often have the words alone and forlorn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )