Synonyms for lonely

Grammar : Adj

Spell : lohn-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈloʊn li

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Définition of lonely

Origin : c.1600, "solitary, lone," from lone + -ly (1). Meaning "dejected for want of company" is from 1811. Lonely heart (n.) "a lonely-hearted person" is from 1922. Lonely hearted (adj.) is attested from 1820.

adj feeling friendless, forlorn
adj out-of-the-way

Example sentences :

It is their virtue in life to be lonely, and none but the lonely man in tragedy may be great.
Extract from : « Riders to the Sea » by J. M. Synge

I am almost as lonely as I was on some of those evenings in the old boarding-house.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

I am a lonely man, my sweeting, and I must settle some day when the wars are over and done.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

You can be lonely in a crowd, and I guess—is there any one around here you like better than me?
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

If she had said she was lonely because the cherry bookcase was in Paris, he could not have been more bewildered.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I knew how lonely it would be in the sitting room that night without me.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

I had eaten all the brush in the ravine and was beginning to be lonely.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

She could not bear that hurt, rebellious, lonely look which they had worn.
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

Faith is the soul's eyesight; and when we possess it the world is never dark nor lonely.
Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I felt miserable and lonely, and you were the only person in London I knew!
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

Antonyms for lonely

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