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ADJECTIVE lonely COMPARATIVE lonlier SUPERLATIVE loneliest

lonely English

Meaning lonely meaning

What does lonely mean?

Definitions in simple English

lonely Adjective

— If you feel lonely, you feel sad because you are alone. She was bored and lonely without her friends. I still miss him terribly and feel very lonely sometimes. — A lonely place is a place with few people, often far from a city or town. The only sound in that wild, lonely place was the wind.

lonely

— adjective (= lonesome) marked by dejection from being alone felt sad and lonely the loneliest night of the week lonesome when her husband is away spent a lonesome hour in the bar — adjective (= alone, lone, solitary) lacking companions or companionship he was alone when we met him she is alone much of the time the lone skier on the mountain a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel a lonely soul a solitary traveler — adjective (= solitary, unfrequented) devoid of creatures a lonely crossroads a solitary retreat a trail leading to an unfrequented lake — adjective (= lone, solitary) characterized by or preferring solitude a lone wolf a lonely existence a man of a solitary disposition a solitary walk

Synonyms lonely synonyms

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lonely English » English

solitary lonesome desolate alone lone forlorn isolated deserted dreary friendless secluded single remote uninhabited unfrequented quiet unhappy sole only bleak unpromising unattended silent retired loneliness hopeless homesick helpless empty disheartening discouraging companionless calm be homesick yearn wretched void vacant upset unpopulated uneasy unassisted unaccompanied stray stranded still sparsely/thinly populated sparse solitude solitary person

Topics lonely topics

What do people use lonely to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Lonely

What words refer to feeling lonely?

feel lonely feel alone feel isolated feel abandoned miss someone
What words describe someone who feels lonely?

lonely lonesome homesick

Social behavior Relationships Disunity

Alone

What words describe someone who is alone and unhappy?

lonely lonesome

Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Separate, alone

What words refer to being alone?

be separate alone lonely isolated hermit recluse cloistered sanctified singular bachelor old maid orphan be by yourself cut off from people marooned remote distant

Social behavior Government Region

Countryside

What words describe an area that doesn't have many people?

deserted desolate lonely uninhabited sparsely populated

States Quantity Full

Empty

What words describe a place that has no people in it?

empty bare deserted desolate ghost town wasteland uninhabited lonely vacant free unoccupied

Person

Life

What words refer to having a particular kind of life?

a good/bad/hard life a life of crime/poverty a miserable/lonely existence lead a good/bad/hard life live well/happily

Examples lonely examples

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Simple sentences

The girl is lonely.

She isn't lonely anymore.

He isn't lonely anymore.

Mary does not have anyone to talk to, but she does not feel lonely.

Tom seems lonely.

Tom must be lonely.

When you're alone in your apartment, you feel independent. When you're alone in your room, you feel free. When you're alone in your bed, you feel lonely.

Tom has no one to play with, so he's lonely.

I feel lonely when you're not here.

Tom is desperately lonely.

It's lonely in the saddle since the horse died.

What a lonely world it will be with you away!

If you didn't have him to exchange letters with, you would be lonely.

Left to himself, the child would feel very lonely.

The lonely man derives pleasure from observing ants.

I feel very lonely these days.

I feel so lonely that I want someone to talk with.

I'm lonely.

I felt lonely.

I get lonely at times.

It is lonely to live alone.

Mary has nobody to talk with, but she doesn't feel lonely.

When I started traveling, I rarely felt lonely.

To tell the truth, I felt lonely.

I stayed so he wouldn't feel lonely.

He felt very lonely.

She always comforted herself with music when she was lonely.

She lived a lonely life.

Movie subtitles

I'm probably, without knowing it, less lonely than I have been in a long time because I'm interacting with people more often than I have in many years.

I was devastated when Brad left, you know, but now, I'm just lonely.

You know, and I can't go get all un-lonely because I'm married.

I'm sorry that you're lonely, but you're not the woman that I love.

You know, being here, surrounded by people, you know, it still gets lonely.

A lonely pilgrim, wandering about the open grave of this dead city.brings the city back to life in his mind.

A lonely wife.

The lonely tramp.

The lonely husband.

The lonely wife.

A lonely tramp.

I no longer feel lonely now that I have Peter. who seems to think that I am the most wonderful woman in the world.

And he would be left with an emptiness, to return to his bleak, lonely existence.

But I reckon I'm gonna be lonely this time.

And I had to leave, tossed by a fever, out into lonely lanes.

Just look at me and consider that never again will you be lonely and unloved despite your ugliness.

Don't you think a moustache ever gets lonely, Captain?

Sure, it gets lonely.

Its a bit lonely on a train.

I hope the journey wont be too lonely. And that the Governor General of Shanghai will be benefited by your skill.

I realize you are lonely.

I've known what it is to feel lonely and helpless. and have the whole world against me.

It's very lonely here, and it's been a long time since any human being came into this hut.

And now, out of the silence of the night, hath brought two of thy lonely children together, and sent me a friend to be a light to mine eyes and a comfort in time of trouble.

I find it very lonely on this island.

Is. is it lonely downstairs, Dody?

Gudule, a lonely girl.

It was very good of you, Madeline, to humour the whim of a lonely man.

Dora looked so lonely, knitting her baby's socks.

I'm dying a lonely, miserable death on a rainy night.

Can you conceive how lonely I am. when there is nothing that doesn't shun me, that doesn't fade as I come near?

Aren't you lonely?

I'm really, really lonely.

Let's unite our lonely destinies!

He's going to be lonely.

News and current affairs

Knowing David Swensen, I can attest that he is not a lonely day trader trying to beat the market.

Perhaps the patient is isolated, lonely, suffering from depression, out of work, or facing some other personal or family calamity.

Occasionally, newspapers report that an old person has been found dead after days, having suffered a lonely demise from illness or even starvation.

Will America hark back to the spirit of 1945 or, despite being sobered and disappointed, decide to stick to its lone and lonely path?

It is in such places - where the impoverished, lonely and displaced end up - that HIV puts down deep roots.

Many of Rivero's old friends feared that talking to the poet would endanger them, and he appeared lonely.

In security terms, Europe would be quite lonely without the US, whatever the nature of the threat.

The New Germany and its post-war generation felt tempted to recover a reunified, yet lonely, German identity, one with influence in Europe and worldwide.

From that time on, Japan trod a lonely path that ended with its defeat in World War II.

Unfortunately, his remains a lonely voice.

Chavez is no longer a lonely populist.

We cannot point to a lonely Cassandra like Robert Shiller of Yale University, who regularly argued that house prices were unsustainable, as proof that the truth was ignored.

Gates's recent statements are by no means those of a lonely isolationist in an otherwise interventionist America.

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